.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
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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 […]
Hope for eagle as released bird finds friends
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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