Early Friday morning, March 7, one of the world’s most endangered species–a North Island brown kiwi–hatched at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Bird House. Keepers had been incubating the egg for five weeks, following a month long incubation by the chick’s father, carefully monitoring it for signs of pipping: the process in which the chick starts […]
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Common insect-eating birds suffer dramatic declines…
New research by Bird Studies Canada (BirdLife Partner in Canada) has highlighted alarming trends in insect-eating birds. In the last two decades alone, populations of many common bug-eating species – such as Sand Martin Riparia riparia, Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor and Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica – have declined by over 70%. With many of the […]
Fijian island beats the rat-race?
A partnership between BirdLife International and the Nagilogilo Clan of Vatuira has resulted in the successful eradication of Pacific Rats Rattus exulans from this internationally important seabird colony. Vatuira – a small island located 15 km from the coast of Fiji?s largest island Viti Levu – is an Important Bird Area (IBA) for several seabird […]
Ski Tourism Stressing Threatening European Bird
Ski tourism is raising stress levels among capercaillie, (wood grouse) the largest member of the grouse family of birds, which could harm the birds’ fitness and ability to breed successfully, ecologists have found. Writing in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers warn that forests should be kept free from tourism infrastructure if […]
Beck?s Petrel flies back from extinction!
A bird that was known only from two records from the 1920s has been discovered in the Pacific after a gap of 79 years. Sightings of the Critically Endangered Beck?s Petrel Pseudobulweria becki – published by the British Ornithologists’ Club – have finally proven the species is still in existence, and delighted conservationists. read more […]
Rescue operation to save birds in Kerch Strait to continue
Volunteers are planning to remain in the Kerch Strait to help birds affected by a November oil spill until the summer, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Russia said on Friday. A storm in the Kerch Strait, which joins the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, sank four ships and an […]
Early birds catch the fish at Sao Paulo market
Jiro Yamada has worked by night and slept by day for the past 43 years. He’s a stall-holder at Sao Paulo’s main fish market, known as Ceagesp, feeding the needs of this giant Brazilian city which prides itself on its restaurants and dining delights. read more at Reuters
24 Hour Protection for Hen Harriers in 2008
A 24 hour nest protection operation is gearing up to be ready if Hen harriers once again nest in North East England this spring. Last year a pair of hen harriers successfully raised five chicks at a nest in Northumberland’s Tynedale, thanks to a 24-hr guard that protect the precious nest from disturbance. The RSPB […]
1500 Acre Reserve Created to Protect Critically Endangered Fuertess Parrot – Once Thought Extinct
The first private protected area for the critically endangered Fuertes?s Parrot has been established by Fundacin ProAves. The species, whose population size is estimated at just 160 individuals, lives only in a small area in the Andes of Colombia that is heavily impacted by deforestation. read more at wildlifeextra
Irving launches constitutional challenge of migratory birds act
.D. Irving Ltd. is challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s Migratory Birds Convention Act. Lawyers for the New Brunswick-based company have filed a notice of motion alleging the act is too vague. The regulations contained in the legislation are meant to protect migratory birds, their eggs and nests. read more at cbc