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Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs ...
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Feed the birds: Winter feeding makes for better breeding
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Feb 06, 2008 |
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Keep feeding the birds over winter: that’s the message from research by the University of Exeter and Queen’s University Belfast, published today (6 February 2008) in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The study shows ...
Livestock grazing and predatory birds combined may trouble farmland wading birds
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Apr 04, 2008 |
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Ecologists have shown that high densities of predatory birds together with high levels of livestock grazing can result in breeding failure among farmland wading birds.
Tropical winter habitat drives natal dispersal of young migratory birds
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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A new study by scientists at the Migratory Bird Center at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo shows that the factors determining where birds settle and nest in the first breeding season depends on the habitat they used during ...
Female birds -- acting just like the guys -- become sexual show-offs in cooperative breeding species
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Female birds in species that breed in groups can find themselves under pressure to sexually show off and evolve the same kinds of embellishments - like fanciful tail feathers or chest-puffing ...
Great bustards to be released on Salisbury Plain
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and conservationists from the Great Bustard Group will be releasing 19 birds on Salisbury Plain on Thursday 25 September as part of an ongoing reintroduction project in ...
20,000 cranes take rest in Colorado
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Thousands of Sandhill Cranes have converged on Colorado's Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge for a stopover before they head north.
Spotted owls facing extinction in Canada
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May 18, 2007 |
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Officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia have ordered all regional spotted owls to be collected to prevent the birds from going extinct.
Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Scientists from British Antarctic Survey, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, and Hokkaido University, Japan, have recorded the first observations of how albatrosses feed alongside marine mammals ...
Long-distance flyers arriving earlier
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Jul 04, 2006 |
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European researchers have found that birds who migrate long distances are arriving at their summer breeding grounds earlier.
Early environment may be key to determining bird migration location
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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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 ...
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