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California Audubon Names Burrowing Owl Bird of the Year

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We’re particularly interested in recognizing bird species that were of significant conservation interest in 2013, but that also had a compelling story and rallied the public around it.” These Burrowing Owl photos were taken at a rare breeding site in Vacaville California. Click on photos for full sized images.

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The most important book about European birds in this century

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The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first posts here at 10,000 Birds: In a warm Catalonian March, Barcelona is filled with sunlight and full of Rose-ringed and Monk Parakeets. In a very short time, we get two responses, two birds calling from opposite directions.

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Astonishing Move By UK Government to Control Buzzards

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A UK government department had announced funding for a research project into the ‘Management of Buzzards to Protect Pheasant poults’ (poults are young Pheasants being reared specifically to be released for shooting). An e-petition is to be launched and I’ll update this post here with a link as soon as that is in place.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

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Duck Numbers And Duck Stamp Sales No Longer Correlate

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We hypothesized that trends in waterfowl hunter numbers, as indicated by Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation Stamp (duck stamp) sales, have become independent of breeding duck populations, and we assess the impacts on habitat conservation. 4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4 for full season access and a super duper version ($50?) Vrtiska, M.,

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Birding Magee Marsh

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But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. Thanks to the folks at the symposium for having me and I’ll see you all in 2013! …

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The Biggest Pygmy Cormorant Roost in the World

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Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorants were a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade… until the wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the whole of Serbia. In December 2013, we already had 2200 birds. Four fifths were gone! Yet, they are nothing if not resilient.