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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique. In a 1946 paper , it is called “under-wing fishing”, while nowadays the term “canopy fishing” seems to be preferred.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. of deaths in the same study were from gunshot wounds (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). of Snowy Owl deaths (Kerlinger and Lein 1988).

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Bird Litigation:  Guilty Plea Under Migratory Bird Treaty Act

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) told ESI that there were an “unusually high number of occupied golden eagle nests” and that the facility should not be built at the proposed location. As a result, “[s]ince 2012, there were at least 150 documented eagle deaths at 50 of defendant’s 154 wind power facilities in the United States.

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