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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. This species is in trouble. Help us get an important part of the funding required by visiting our Indiegogo Campaign. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.

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Some therapeutic post-lockdown birding

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Still, the ease of restrictions allowed me to escape some of the elections campaign torture through the media and exchange it for the soothing sensation of being in a deep and damp conifer forests in the rain. I wasn’t well prepared and dipped just about every target species, but I was in the forest at 1200 m / 4000 ft a.s.l.

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Come@Me: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos

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Not even 60 species worldwide? In 2011 I tried to reach the marketing department of Zeiss to sell them the centenary campaign idea, but found deaf ears and no answer.). There are some 56-57 species worldwide which hardly presents a challenge. Just one odd bird that may or may not belong to some locally rarely observed species.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens.

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