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« Reply #2325 on: May 18, 2019, 01:42:21 PM »
As the climate changes, where should we put our nature reserves?

http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/climate-changes-where-should-we-put-our-nature-reserves


Ecuador's cloud forests are among the most rapidly deforested habitats in the world ? Claudia Hermes
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« Reply #2326 on: May 18, 2019, 01:43:55 PM »
Iconic Welsh bird disappearing

http://www.surfbirds.com/community-blogs/blog/2019/05/17/iconic-welsh-bird-disappearing/


Curlew, copyright Glyn Sellors, from the surfbirds galleries
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« Reply #2327 on: May 18, 2019, 01:46:26 PM »
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« Reply #2328 on: May 20, 2019, 04:39:23 PM »
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« Reply #2329 on: May 22, 2019, 05:10:20 PM »
Millions of songbirds 'vacuumed' to death every year during olive harvest season

https://globalnews.ca/news/5297020/olive-harvest-songbirds-vacuum-trees/


Five carcasses of protected bird species are seen on the nighttime collection trailer in November 2017.
Council of Environment, Spain
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« Reply #2330 on: May 22, 2019, 05:11:44 PM »
The extinction crisis is 'unprecedented in human history'

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-extinction-crisis-unprecedented-human-history.html

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« Reply #2331 on: May 22, 2019, 05:14:53 PM »
Birds outfitted with 'backpacks' to research environmental change

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-birds-outfitted-backpacks-environmental.html


Alex Jahn outfits a bird with a GPS tracker to study its migration patterns. Credit: James Brosher, Indiana University
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« Reply #2332 on: May 22, 2019, 05:25:22 PM »
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« Reply #2333 on: May 22, 2019, 05:26:10 PM »
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« Reply #2334 on: May 22, 2019, 06:05:58 PM »
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« Reply #2335 on: May 23, 2019, 04:48:24 PM »
Team Seeks Skittish Seabird Off NC Coast

https://www.coastalreview.org/2019/05/team-seeks-skittish-seabird-off-nc-coast/


Marine range of black-capped petrel. Map: USFWS
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« Reply #2336 on: May 23, 2019, 05:02:45 PM »
Scientists Catch Tibetan Snowcocks on Camera in their High-Elevation Habitats

http://glacierhub.org/2019/05/23/tibetan-snowcocks-himalayas/

Paper: Habitat use and diel activity pattern of the Tibetan Snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus): a case study using camera traps for surveying high-elevation bird species

https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-019-0144-y


Distribution of camera traps over the study region (Source: Luo et al.)


These pheasant birds blend in really well with their environment (Source: Sumita Roy Dutta/Wikimedia Commons)
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« Reply #2337 on: May 23, 2019, 05:06:15 PM »
Bird species, a French delicacy, being eaten to death

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/bird-species-a-french-delicacy-being-eaten-to-death

Paper: Unravelling migration connectivity reveals unsustainable hunting of the declining ortolan bunting

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaau2642


Ortolan buntings, marinated in Armagnac, in preparation for eating.
Fran?ois DUCASSE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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« Reply #2338 on: May 24, 2019, 03:07:43 PM »
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« Reply #2339 on: May 24, 2019, 03:30:31 PM »
Albino magpie in Tasmanian wildlife sanctuary 'one in a million', keepers say

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/albino-magpie-found-in-tasmania-north/11142548


Photo: An all-white, genuine albino magpie was turned into Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary in Tasmania. (Twitter: Brenda Aksionov)
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