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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The Notes are on the other hand well-worth reading, including documentation of the text and additional comments, even more stories, by Birkhead.

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Birding Beljarica in August

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I started the campaign for the protection of Beljarica, raising public awareness and collecting more than 10,000 petition signatures, not only because of its Eurasian Otters , White-tailed Eagles , Black Storks , Icterine and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers , etc., but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. He collected the first data set, invented the experimental equipment, came up with the first conclusions, the theories and findings upon which subsequent studies have been based. It’s not a bad idea.

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Greater Sage-grouse v. Wind Turbines in Oregon

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BLM issued a draft EIS, provided the public with an opportunity to comment, and then issued the final EIS , a comprehensive document that runs 1253 pages. The many BLM documents relating to the project can be found here.). The plan included a number of sage-grouse mitigation measures.

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

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We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The original specimens were collected in dense jungle, and the recent sightings in more open forest may represent suboptimal habitat. What are the threats? Humbly, we approach on foot.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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