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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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.” The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don’t believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.).

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. After all, what was thought as its habitat was heavily deteriorated and converted to agriculture as the human population grew. The amazing news went across the world. Photo: Fernando Angulo Pratolongo.

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Taking on Turkeys

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A recent news story (OK, the word “news” is stretched here, as it’s more of a roundup of local “turkeys on the rampage” stories) documents close encounters of the nasty kind between wild turkeys and humans, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to California.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Interestingly, when I checked eBird to see how many birders reported the Cranes at this specific location, there was absolutely no documentation, even though I had seen reports on my eBird alerts and on Florida Facebook pages. In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother. An eBird mystery.

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