Wildlife experts have urged wind farm developers in Cumbria to be more aware of the potential risk to wild birds. The RSPB has issued a planning guide, which highlights areas that are home to species like the pink footed goose, whooper swan and hen harrier. read more at bbc
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Early Experience Affects Where Birds Breed For Life: What Happens If Habitat Changes?
How young migratory birds choose the nesting location of their first breeding season has been something of a mystery in the bird world. But a new University of Maryland/National Zoo study of the American redstart suggests that the environmental conditions the birds face in their first year may help determine where they breed for the […]
Seabird protection measures announced
Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today announced a suite of measures to protect seabirds from being accidentally caught when commercial vessels are fishing. These are measures that will be put in place while longer term solutions to the problem of seabird bycatch in commercial fisheries are developed. read more at scoop nz
Sugar is not so sweet
A flourishing wetland on Kenya?s northern coast is under serious threat from plans to grow vast amounts of sugarcane, partly for biofuel production. Developers want to transform nearly 20,000 hectares of the spectacular Tana River Delta, into sugarcane plantations with other parts of the Delta earmarked for rice. read more at birdlife
The changing face of Britains skies
If you’re a bird-lover and you want to see nesting snow buntings in the mountains of Scotland, or pintail ducks breeding in the fens of East Anglia, go now; their time here is limited. Research shows that British and European birds face a potentially disastrous future thanks to climate change during the coming century. Three-quarters […]
A new subspecies of bird discovered at Koshi Tappu in Nepal
The bird was first recorded by Ornithologist and Chairman of Nepal Rare Birds Committee (NRBC) Mr Suchit Basnet and Mr Badri Chaudhary on 1 April 2005 at Koshi Tappu. The bird was identified as Rufous-vented Prinia bringing Nepal’s total bird list to 862 species. The bird is known as Prinia burnesii to scientific community. The […]
Modern Birds Appeared 100 Million Years Ago! – So says their DNA
The oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx, lived 150 million years ago, but this species and its relatives can be hardly differentiated from dinosaurs. And for about 90 million years on, fossil birds had been toothed, being very different from the modern types. Fossils resembling modern birds started to appear around the demise of the dinosaurs. read […]
A bird-watcher?s tips for conservation goals
Ornithologist Peter Kaestner has suggested reaching out to the ?aam aadmi? (common man) through ?charismatic mega fauna? such as the tiger and the elephant for long-term conservation goals in India. Conservation should be presented to the public in such a manner that they would understand it and relate it to their lives and ethos, he […]
A Greener View: Bird count needs more bird-watching participants for research
This year the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is Feb. 15 to Feb. 18. It is an annual four-day period when bird-watchers create a snapshot of the birds’ locations across the continent. Anyone can be a bird-watcher for those four days. A “backyard” can be anywhere you happen to be – a schoolyard, a local […]
Nominated World Heritage Site facing development threats
Socotra is a spectacular group of remote Yemen islands in the Arabian Sea. With a long history of isolation the archipelago possesses a high level of endemism (species found nowhere else in the world), with over 300 unique plants, 21 reptiles and over 60 endemic butterflies and moths read more at Birdlife