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Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

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Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information. Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers. Rest in peace, cranes 905 and 733.

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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

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The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly. A reward of $1000 has been offered for information helping authorities track down the shooters; more info is here. Please get our endangered species out of your sights, and shoot something else.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones.

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Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR

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The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. A handful of endangered species have been observed at the refuge (or in the vicinity) as well.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Our mobile phones had no signal inside the reserve, yet, the guides were communicating on some local network, informing each other where the tigers are. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

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Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

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And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. She made the best decision she could for those cats with the information she was given by that organization, which wasn’t the best information. We see several different types of species. Birds cats indoors'