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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. I understand why he writes this; the speed at which billions of Passenger Pigeons disappeared is scary, far slower than the whittling down of bird numbers in Europe over centuries. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds.

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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

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Migrants will be around but their hormone driven urges to get back to the breeding grounds for procreation make them less than reliable on count day. Yes, that really is a bird and it doesn’t have anything to do with a tiny country in Europe. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : Thick-billed Lark!

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A Little Win

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Turtle Dove Turtle Doves are a protected species in Britain, in fact the status of Turtle Doves has become of so much concern there is a special project called Operation Turtle Dove created to look at how the huge declines in our British breeding populations might be halted. This was a little win perhaps, but hopefully the first of many.

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