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Bird Litigation: Spotted Owl v. Barred Owl

10,000 Birds

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “ threatened ” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly relating to forestry management plans in the Pacific Northwest. The cases are: Friends of Animals v.

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Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR

10,000 Birds

The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C. 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. There are nesting Bald Eagles in the area as well.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Street, N.W.

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