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

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. So, I flew to Chicago, where my daughter directed me to Washington Park in New Hyde Park, the area of Chicago where the University is located.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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“This is just massive, massive, unprecedented,” said Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths for almost 20 years. “We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. But, it’s a new story to me, one that reads like a fairy tale.

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Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR

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The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C. The explanation begins with looking carefully at a legal document, which can be more interesting than it sounds. Note that this is a document drafted by the plaintiffs (ABC and BSBO): it is designed to state the case factually but persuasively.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. Nests were in hollows in palm trees. What a horror!

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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Without further ado, here are our Best Birds of the Year for 2015… Jochen makes us all jealous with a bird that most of us would kill to see. I have looked for them in southern California in winter several times, I have looked for them in Washington in summer , and I have looked for them in Costa Rica this month.

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