THE old saying that birds of a feather flock together is proving true for a rare species fighting back against extinction. The sense of adventure shown by a young male sea eagle is delighting experts, who see it as evidence that Britain’s biggest bird of prey is spreading over the country once more. read more […]
Category: nieuws
Kazakhstan study helps to identify wealth of new IBAs
Identifying Important Bird Areas (IBAs), and ensuring their long-term protection, cannot be achieved without detailed information of the bird populations occurring within them. This was highlighted by a study published this month in BirdLife?s journal Bird Conservation International. The authors produced new data from Kazakhstan highlighting the importance of land surrounding the protected Korgalzhynskiy nature […]
BirdLife Cyprus cries foul over weak penalty for falcon slaughterers
A pair of poachers involved in the shocking shooting of 52 Red-footed Falcons Falco Vespertinus at Akrotiri, Cyprus, last year were yesterday fined a ?derisory? ?1,250 each, BirdLife Cyprus protested. The British Sovereign Base Area (SBA) court could have imposed a maxiumum penalty of ?17,000 and three years imprisonment. The massacre was the worst case […]
Endangered bird flies in the face of construction
For a large petrochemical plant awaiting approval for construction, it’s a bad tern of events. The proposed Goldboro petrochemical plant for Nova Scotia’s eastern shore could be scuttled if federal environmental regulators rule in favour of a small, endangered bird. read more at gazette
Birds choke to death on migrant fish
Britain’s sea birds are facing a deadly new threat from a population explosion of strange, seahorse-like creatures in our coastal waters. The snake pipefish, virtually unknown around the UK in 2002, has undergone a massive, baffling and dangerous expansion since then, scientists have discovered. read more at guardian
Bird-boy found in Russia
A boy lived with his mother in a 2-room apartment full of cages with feed and droppings. She had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. A woman neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught […]
Groups seek to protect the shore bird
A migratory bird environmentalists say is threatened because of horseshoe crab fishing should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, a coalition of environmental groups say in a letter to federal officials. read more at yahoo
Paraguay?s first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site – right on the capital?s doorstep!
Monitoring of shorebirds by Guyra Paraguay (BirdLife Partner in Paraguay) has resulted in the designation of the country?s first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) site. Baha de Asuncin – an IBA wetland just north of Paraguay?s capital city Asuncin – has been identified as a key site for the Near Threatened Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites […]
Polluted Prey Causes Wild Birds To Change Their Tune
Considerable attention has been paid to the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in aquatic environments, but rather less attention has been given to routes of contamination on land. A new study by researchers at Cardiff University, reveals that wild birds foraging on invertebrates contaminated with environmental pollutants, show marked changes in both brain and behaviour: […]
Critical birds in the picture (and on the page)
BirdLife International. Last year’s Rare Birds Yearbook photo competition was a huge success with more than 1,000 images being submitted and the best were presented in Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, with each published photographer receiving a free copy of the book. The photo competition for Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 has just been launched and will […]