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« Reply #5940 on: November 23, 2017, 08:36:02 PM »

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« Reply #5941 on: November 23, 2017, 08:38:35 PM »

Red-tailed hawk rescued after getting trapped in Virginia Beach home

http://wtkr.com/2017/11/23/red-tailed-hawk-rescued-after-getting-trapped-in-virginia-beach-home/

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« Reply #5942 on: November 23, 2017, 08:40:58 PM »

'Proverbial Bat Out Of Hell': Hawk Crashes Through Couple's Living Room Window

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/11/22/red-tailed-hawk-ross-township-home/

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« Reply #5943 on: November 23, 2017, 08:44:03 PM »

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« Reply #5944 on: November 23, 2017, 08:46:29 PM »

Cranes have childhood sweethearts who they flirt with for YEARS before becoming life-long partners as adults

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5111623/Whooping-cranes-pair-childhood-sweethearts.html

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« Reply #5945 on: November 23, 2017, 08:47:30 PM »

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« Reply #5946 on: November 23, 2017, 08:50:02 PM »

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« Reply #5947 on: November 23, 2017, 09:02:42 PM »

Pesticide Makers Seek To Protect Poisons By Silencing Scientists

http://www.nationalmemo.com/pesticide-makers-seek-protect-poisons-silencing-silents/

Three major pesticides are likely to harm nearly all US endangered species

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-05/three-major-pesticides-are-likely-harm-nearly-all-us-endangered-species

EPA Releases Final Biological Evaluations of Three Chemicals' Impacts on Endangered Species

https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-releases-final-biological-evaluations-three-chemicals-impacts-endangered-species

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« Reply #5949 on: November 24, 2017, 12:48:16 PM »

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« Reply #5950 on: November 24, 2017, 12:54:19 PM »

BirdNote Stories for the week of November 26, 2017

http://mailchi.mp/birdnote/weeklypreview-865257?e=e2aca28750

Featuring: Why Birds' Feet Don't Freeze

https://birdnote.org/show/why-birds-feet-dont-freeze

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« Reply #5951 on: November 24, 2017, 02:06:02 PM »

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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« Reply #5952 on: November 24, 2017, 02:07:58 PM »

Why Do Turkey Vultures Have Red Heads?

https://baynature.org/article/turkey-vultures-red-heads/

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« Reply #5954 on: November 24, 2017, 02:25:34 PM »

UPDATE: Migrating snow geese land in Berkeley Pit water -- and survive

http://mtstandard.com/natural-resources/superfund/update-migrating-snow-geese-land-in-berkeley-pit-water-and/article_64aeb102-5558-5191-80e6-1449aa0b7cb8.html



Update: Butte mine officials: Snow geese deaths number into the thousands

http://mtstandard.com/natural-resources/superfund/butte-mine-officials-snow-geese-deaths-number-into-the-thousands/article_3373e2fd-dc5a-58c0-ad55-93b6d0249351.html



More: The Goose-Killing Lake and the Scientists Who Study It

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/berkeley-pit-geese/510089/



Update: Thousands of bird deaths draw focus on brimming toxic pit (Update)

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-brimming-toxic-pit-nears-critical.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter



Update: Drones, fireworks and more keep birds out of Berkeley Pit (video)

http://www.ktvq.com/story/36464149/drones-fireworks-and-more-keep-birds-out-of-berkeley-pit

OUTRAGEOUS! Update: Wildlife service won't fine companies over snow geese, says official

http://mtstandard.com/news/local/wildlife-service-won-t-fine-companies-over-snow-geese-says/article_f6f7c867-a3bb-5fe5-9522-48b72f4b564d.html

http://mtstandard.com/news/local/wildlife-service-won-t-fine-companies-over-snow-geese-says/article_f6f7c867-a3bb-5fe5-9522-48b72f4b564d.html

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring