Back by popular demand, New Zealand?s rare endemic night parrot will be available for viewing by interested public in September-October in southern New Zealand. Get your map, mark your calendar and dust off your intrepid adventuring cap. From September 8-October 22, 2008, you have a date on New Zealand?s Stewart Island with one of Earth?s […]
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New Bird Species Recognised in Colombia, May Already be Extinct
A new bird species, the Antioquia Brush-Finch or Atlapetes blancae – has been described as a result of studies supported by Fundacin ProAves in Colombia. Ornithologists are concerned about the conservation of the new species, as nobody knows whether or not it still exists. read more at wildlifextra
Iraq bird book for children launched
With support from the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, the Ministry of Environment – Kurdish Regional Government, Nature Iraq in partnership with the Iraqi Ministry of Environment and BirdLife International has just released a new book on birds for the children of Iraq written in the country’s two main languages, Arabic and Kurdish. […]
Six rare international bird species listed as endangered
Six rare international bird species have been listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act, after a series of lawsuits demanding protection for these birds. read more at Malaysia Sun
Two Sightings of Northern Bald Ibis in Middle East Bring a Spark of Hope
Efforts to save the Middle East?s rarest bird have been boosted by two chance sightings of the species 1,500 miles apart. Northern bald ibises were seen last month in the Jordan Valley for the first time in 13 years, as well as, for the first time ever, in Djibouti in east Africa, raising hopes that […]
EU Biofuels policy left in tatters
A leaked internal European Commission document gives a damning verdict on the EU’s proposals to set a mandatory 10 per cent target for the use of biofuels in transport. The report, obtained by Friends of the Earth Europe and BirdLife International, reveals that the EU’s biofuels policy is likely to have a net cost of […]
Herons nesting in the wetlands of southeast Chicago are still being exposed to chemicals banned in the U.S. in the 1970s, a research team reports. The chemicals do not appear to be affecting the birds? reproductive success, however.
University of Illinois veterinary biosciences scientist Jeff Levengood led the study. Levengood, a wildlife toxicologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, said that chemicals banned 30 years ago for their deleterious effects on wildlife are still showing up in the offspring of black-crowned night-herons in a Chicago wetland. The researchers found PCBs and DDE in […]
Lake Natron local people reject proposed soda ash development
Local people from Lake Natron voiced their concerns at a public hearing held on 24 January to the proposed soda ash plant there which would threaten the world’s largest population of Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor. ?There is no need to accept a project that will later destroy us?, said the traditional chief from Pinyinyi, one […]
Helicopter Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
A collaborative partnership has been established to conduct helicopter searches over portions of what is thought to be the core of Ivory-billed Woodpecker habitat in the Big Woods of Arkansas. read more at wildlifextra
How the hummingbird got his whistle
American zoologists say they can settle a long-running debate about how male hummingbirds are able to whistle at females of the species to try to entice them into mating. The Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna), native to the US West Coast, makes the brief but loud chirp as he dives to impress females that venture into […]