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« Reply #8760 on: April 13, 2019, 04:55:05 PM »
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« Reply #8761 on: April 13, 2019, 05:22:25 PM »
It's Been 127 Years Since California Condors Were in the Pacific Northwest - Now They're Coming Back

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/california-condors-returning-to-pacific-northwest/

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« Reply #8762 on: April 13, 2019, 05:24:24 PM »
BirdNote Stories for the week of April 14, 2019

https://mailchi.mp/birdnote/weeklypreview-866845?e=e2aca28750

Featuring: Tricolored Blackbirds Face the Future

https://www.birdnote.org/show/tricolored-blackbirds-face-future

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« Reply #8766 on: April 14, 2019, 08:02:45 PM »
A cassowary, a rare emu-like bird, attacks and kills Florida man, officials say

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/14/us/cassowary-bird-kills-florida-man/index.html

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« Reply #8767 on: April 14, 2019, 09:00:43 PM »
Whooping crane sightings


Submitted Photos These banded whooping cranes were seen near the new White Shield High School. Karen LoneFight, who submitted the photos, said she saw them at three different locations and reported the sightings to Game and Fish.
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« Reply #8768 on: April 15, 2019, 01:07:12 PM »
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« Reply #8769 on: April 15, 2019, 01:10:04 PM »
Saving the endangered kiwikiu with bird release in fall

http://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2019/04/saving-the-kiwikiu/


Fewer than 300 kiwikiu, also known as Maui parrotbill, are left in Maui's wild, the only place on the Earth these petite birds can be found. Experts are looking to start a second kiwikiu population high atop leeward Haleakala this fall, and they've been reforesting the area for about seven years in joint efforts to restore native habitat. -- Department of Land and Natural Resources photo
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« Reply #8771 on: April 15, 2019, 02:31:29 PM »
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is on fire

This is a massive fire; the spire has already collapsed.

Apart from being a national disaster for France, peregrines nest at the Cathedral. I can only hope that they were able to escape, and that there were no chicks in the nest.   :'(






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« Reply #8773 on: April 18, 2019, 02:17:40 PM »
Migrating vulture is seized as a SPY by militants in Yemen after they spot a wildlife group's GPS tracker on its leg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6931217/Migrating-vulture-seized-SPY-militants-Yemen.html


Nelson the griffon vulture (pictured) was captured in Yemen over fears it was being used to spy on pro-government forces there

A Bulgarian vulture's odyssey into Yemeni war zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47974725

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