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« Reply #2175 on: March 01, 2019, 02:03:17 PM »



AWWI Technical Report: A Summary of Bird Fatality Data in a Nationwide Database

https://awwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/AWWI-Bird-Technical-Report-02_25_19.pdf


Some Takeaways

The 15 most reported of the 281 species constituted 48.8% of all fatality incidents. American kestrel and red-tailed hawk were in the top ten species with the most reported fatality incidents and were the most frequently reported raptor fatalities across almost all avifaunal biomes.

Seventeen golden eagles were reported in 11 scheduled searches.  Twenty additional golden eagles were reported as incidental finds.  No bald eagles were contained in the AWWIC database. Fatalities of the bald eagles at wind facilities have been reported in the literature and more are known to have occurred since this publication.

Conclusion

"Because of their life history attributes, diurnal raptors are a group of concern. Collision risk appears to vary considerably within this group, and this variation will be evaluated with additional data and further analysis."
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« Reply #2176 on: March 01, 2019, 10:15:51 PM »
Protecting Our World's Oldest Wild Bird

https://www.islandconservation.org/protecting-our-worlds-oldest-wild-bird/

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has released the final Environmental Assessment for the Midway Seabird Protection Project.

https://www.islandconservation.org/protecting-midways-seabirds/

Midway Seabird Protection Project - Final Environmental Assessment and Project Plan

https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=e7bbcf5c95804186902ef938f1c020f2


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« Reply #2177 on: March 02, 2019, 08:37:16 PM »
Spring migration is now earlier in European and North American birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190225105106.htm

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« Reply #2178 on: March 04, 2019, 02:24:07 PM »
Extinction warning: Up to 1,700 bird and animal species could be WIPED OUT by 2070

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/up-1700-bird-animal-species-14086364

Abstract: Extinction risk from climate change - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02121


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« Reply #2179 on: March 04, 2019, 02:32:04 PM »
Wildlife managers track eagles' movements in Southwest Colorado

https://durangoherald.com/articles/265559



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« Reply #2180 on: March 05, 2019, 11:51:26 AM »
Biodiversity crisis: Technological advances in agriculture are not a sufficient response

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190304121543.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


The production of oilseeds such as palm oil is currently becoming the most important driver of species extinction on a global scale.
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« Reply #2181 on: March 06, 2019, 04:37:47 PM »
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Biodiversity crisis: Technological advances in agriculture are not a sufficient response

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190304121543.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


The production of oilseeds such as palm oil is currently becoming the most important driver of species extinction on a global scale.
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More: Bird extinctions 'driven' by global food trade

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47441292


The European turtle dove: Numbers are in decline
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« Reply #2182 on: March 06, 2019, 04:38:24 PM »
Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190305083638.htm

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« Reply #2183 on: March 06, 2019, 04:47:00 PM »
Ecological vineyards help protecting bird population in the environment

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uob-evh030619.php

Paper: Organic farming favours bird communities and their resilience to climate change in Mediterranean vineyards

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880918304092


The Conservation Biology Group of the University of Barcelona describes for the first time the beneficial effect of ecological viticulture on bird population in the environment.
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« Reply #2184 on: March 06, 2019, 05:16:29 PM »
Migrating birds avoid wind turbines, suffer from habitat loss

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/migrating-birds-avoid-wind-turbines-suffer-habitat-loss

Abstract: Wind turbines cause functional habitat loss for migratory soaring birds

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2656.12961
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« Reply #2185 on: March 06, 2019, 05:29:21 PM »
Abstract: Modelling the risk of collision with power lines in Bonelli's Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus and its conservation implications

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/modelling-the-risk-of-collision-with-power-lines-in-bonellis-eagle-hieraaetus-fasciatus-and-its-conservation-implications/DE36CF8D56F0A3829B2017262C627D60

Takeaways:

"...the risk of collision was mainly determined by eagles' home range use..."

"...the risk of collision increased in open habitats, far from urban areas that were good for hunting, and in cliff areas used for breeding and roosting, where eagles fly at a lower height..."

"These results suggested that power line collisions might be more important than previously reported as a cause of mortality for the species..."
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« Reply #2186 on: March 06, 2019, 05:45:55 PM »
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Abstract: Modelling the risk of collision with power lines in Bonelli's Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus and its conservation implications

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/modelling-the-risk-of-collision-with-power-lines-in-bonellis-eagle-hieraaetus-fasciatus-and-its-conservation-implications/DE36CF8D56F0A3829B2017262C627D60

Takeaways:

"...the risk of collision was mainly determined by eagles' home range use..."

"...the risk of collision increased in open habitats, far from urban areas that were good for hunting, and in cliff areas used for breeding and roosting, where eagles fly at a lower height..."

"These results suggested that power line collisions might be more important than previously reported as a cause of mortality for the species..."

More: Guidelines for the conservation of Bonelli's eagle populations

Abstract: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/69446

Document: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/69446/9/Guidelines_BE_2016.pdf

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« Reply #2187 on: March 07, 2019, 04:24:56 PM »
Biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190305083630.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


The changes in color are as light as the lightest species and as dark as the darkest species in the entire genus -- and this genus has been evolving for millions of years.
Credit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo Letters
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