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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a result, FWS denied the petition to delist in August 2016. The group and its members typically allege that they observe birds or run birding companies or have a mission to protect and preserve birds, so the standing requirement is satisfied. Robert Zink, a biologist at the University of Nebraska (the “ Zink study ”).

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JUNE 29, 2023

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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MAY 5, 2016

Our celebration of mothers during the first Sunday of May finds symmetry in the natural world, where so many maternal-minded birds are building nests or protecting eggs. Those of us enjoying a glorious spring can see signs of rebirth all around.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But if you wish to do more than worry, think about those organizations that fight tirelessly under every administration and regime to protect the natural world we treasure. With hope, that and many other of our worst nightmares will turn out to be mere figments of fear and pessimism.

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MAY 9, 2017

Controversies about federal public lands, including the 2016 occupation of Malheur NWR in Oregon and proposed bills in Congress to dispose of certain land, has focused attention on the value of federal lands to birds and birders. These sanctuaries include some of the most productive waters in the Pacific.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. Originally founded in 1925 to test the adaptability and marketability of the plantain, it also protects 1,281 hectacres of tropical lowland forest rich in birds such as Rufous-tailed Jacamar and Pale-billed Woodpecker.

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APRIL 3, 2020

Foreboding superstitions about the waxwing persisted into the twentieth century: an irruption of this species in Great Britain during the winter of 1913-1914 was viewed in hindsight as a harbinger of World War I, which broke out the following summer, as depicted in Pestvogel (2016) by American artist Walton Ford (born 1960).

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APRIL 25, 2022

All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne. On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Just as the National Park Service marks 2016 as its centennial year and celebrates 100 years of stewardship for American public lands, many of our wild public places are being attacked by a small group of extremists as well as key members of the House of Representatives and the U.S.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species. That’s an origin as cool as Superman being the last son of Krypton, and wins the goose the Aussie birds of the year award. Singapore: Urban Bird of the Year.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

The year 2016 is done and gone and 2017 beckons us onward, bright and new and shiny, hopefully full of birds. As birders we love the turn of the calendar as it allows us to start a new year list and take stock of the previous year’s sightings, twitches, dips, and photos.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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JUNE 6, 2019

In 2016, the Shanghai Wildlife Protection Management Station started the search for one, though progress has been slow. This has also made the Reed Parrotbill the symbol of a local initiative to protect the wetlands of Nanhui. I would like to introduce two candidates, a bulbul and a parrotbill.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Yet, with larger protected areas things get more complicated. Small reserves such as the Khijadiya and the Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat are mostly well described. I would say the same for the smallish Velavadar National Park (Gujarat) – reasonably well described. Let me see some of the larger areas now.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. and population estimate above the map and the bird’s most likely habitats below the map. .” I don’t really understand why this 15-page section is included in a book already bursting at the seams. by Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop & David Tipling.

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MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Common and scientific names are also based on the SACC.

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JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Part of its obscurity is due to the fiercely protective relationship Cologne has with its beer.

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JULY 1, 2018

The last successful breeding year was in 2016 when the eggs were laid a little earlier than the usual July 1st and one chick did survive to join other Pied Oystercatchers in a non-breeding flock for a few years. He last raised a chick successfully in 2016 and has nested in this area since 2008. Nest site with a view. Eggs in the nest.

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MARCH 7, 2017

The center of attention are the eagle hunters, erect on their horses, hands protected by thick leather gloves holding their hooded eagles, arms propped up by handmade wooden rests attached to the saddle, weathered faces framed by splendid fur-trimmed hats. (If Music by Jeff Peters, title song sung by Sia. 87 minutes.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan. Rocky Mountain Books, July 2016. Published by Rocky Mountain Books, a small Canadian publishing company, this is an author and a book that deserves a readership beyond Canadian borders. by Caroline Fox.

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MAY 23, 2023

Conservation: The ABA emphasizes the importance of bird conservation and works to protect bird habitats and species. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted in 2016, there were approximately 45 million birdwatchers in the United States. According to the U.S.

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APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, with temperatures here dropping to near freezing again overnight, I wish I had another bottle of the rich, warming 2016 Quinta do Vale da Perdiz Cistus Reserva Douro to uncork this evening. Quinta do Vale da Perdiz Cistus Reserva Douro (2016). Good birding and happy drinking! Three out of five feathers (Good).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The percentage of engaged workers was also 34 percent in March 2016.). Heinemeier Hansson and Fried, who are adamant about creating a “calm company” that eschews work weeks longer than 40 hours, emphasize the importance of managers protecting their workers’ time so they can accomplish what’s necessary and avoid what is not. “We

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JUNE 17, 2021

Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Young Roe Deer buck in Beljarica.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it. My 2016 efforts began with a generous gift of 43 seedlings from a local botanical garden, representing just the sort of diversity that most reforestation efforts lack. Wild Grapes are sprouting in a pot in my yard as I write.

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JULY 19, 2021

A series of devastating hurricanes in 2016, 2017 and 2019 may have sounded its death knell. If the nuthatch is now extinct, we’ve lost a species that might have been saved with a greater effort to study and protect it.”. But as that theory gained acceptance, the nuthatch became increasingly endangered.

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MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Common Pochard is not just a scarce breeding bird, but the second most numerous wintering duck in Serbia and it will be a hard battle to protect it against the strong hunting lobby. There are 29 species listed as Extinct in 2016 for which the year of extinction is estimated as 1940 or later. Common Pochard Aythya ferina.

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JUNE 13, 2017

But in July 2016, the Air Force resumed the project and issued a new draft environmental assessment , which proposed some mitigation methods, including reduced operation during dawn and dusk during migration periods. In October 2016, ABC and BSBO sent to Air Force a notice of intent to bring a lawsuit and they later filed the complaint.

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MARCH 15, 2024

The number breeding in Europe is almost certainly much reduced from what it was a century ago, but in Spain the birds are now valued and protected. However, a drastic decline followed, and census results for 2016 and 2017 produced counts of around 2,500 pairs.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They are docile and devoted parents who will not leave their nests.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

National Geographic highlights the amazing story of how a group of villagers banded together to educate their neighbors and protect the Stork, a scavenger also called Hargilla (Sanskrit for “bone swallower”). Successes like these have earned the group the United Nations Development Program India’s 2016 Biodiversity Award.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Published by Princeton University Press in early 2016, Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia (I’m going to use this shortened title for the rest of the review), covers 83 species of Anseriformes–ducks, geese, and swans–of, yes, Europe, Asia and North America. Princeton University Press, March 2016.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. The Italian wintering grounds are the WWF Oasis Laguna di Orbetello, where in February 2016 I was delighted to meet the flock.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

And so, here it is, the last story that I will be posting for 2016. There is a small Federal Reserve, set aside on the white sandy beach near San Jose Del Cabo, in order to protect the nesting Least Terns. It has truly been an incredible honor joining the team here at 10,000 Birds.

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