Rainforest is being logged on one of the world’s wildlife hotspots more quickly than almost anywhere else in South-East Asia, satellite images have shown. Before and after pictures of New Britain, which is part of Papua New Guinea, show that 12 per cent of forest including 20 per cent of lowland forest was cleared between […]
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2007 Worst Year for Red Kite Poisoning Since 2001
Although most land managers welcome red kites and have played a key role in the reintroduction programme, A few that are involved with game management continue with indiscriminate and illegal abuse of banned agricultural pesticides by laying poison baits. read more at wildlifextra
Surveys reveal riches of San Rafael
Ten years of survey work in the San Rafael National Park in Paraguay have established that it is “as important for both avian diversity and threatened species as any other location in South America”. read more at birdlife
Migratory birds in Kashmir hit by freezing conditions
Srinagar, Jan.4 : The cold wave in Kashmir has made life difficult for the migratory birds that frequent Hokersar wetland here every year. At the Hokersar wetland, located 16 kilometres north of Srinagar, the wildlife officials are striving to ensure a suitable environment for migrant birds read more at Indian gazette
One of Britains most notorious illegal bird egg collectors is jailed
Notorious British “egger” – compulsive collectors who trawl the countryside hunting for wild bird eggs – has been sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to violating wildlife regulations. read more at yahoo
Some Birds Can Communicate About Behavior Of Predators
With the aid of various alarm calls the Siberian jay bird species tells other members of its group what their main predators-hawks-are doing. The alarm calls are sufficient for Siberian jays to evince situation-specific fleeing behaviors, which enhances their chances of survival. This discovery, being published by Uppsala University researcher Michael Griesser in the journal […]
Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans
The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually ‘crystallized’ by maturity. The same control is seen in the motor performance of top athletes and musicians. Yet, subtle variations in highly practiced skills persist […]
Helping Hand From The Grandparents, Observed In Birds
A team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia has discovered the existence of ?grandparent’ helpers in the Seychelles warbler – the first time this behaviour, which rarely occurs except in humans, has been observed in birds. read more at sciencedaily
Whooping Crane record broken in Texas
Texas is the winter home of the only self-sustaining wild population of Whooping Cranes Grus americana in the world and this winter record numbers have completed their migration and returned to the southern state. Whooping Cranes have been on the endangered species list since 1970, when only 56 birds survived in the wild in the […]
Bali Climate Change Conference revives hope for tropical forests
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins today (December 3rd) on the island of Bali. The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, brings together representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The two week period includes the sessions of the Conference of […]