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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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Protection for a fee: Band-tailed Gulls and Red-legged Cormorants

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With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. The gulls breed their young and the cormorants raise their young successfully as shown by the size of the two young birds in the photos.

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Magpie-lark breeding near Broome

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Magpie-larks have been busy at all of the muddy puddles in recent months collecting mud to make their nests. Whilst enjoying the Magpie Geese breeding around Broome recently we also noticed a Magpie-lark nest close to the highway in one of the very few trees beside the road. Magpie-lark nest on the left of the tree.

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Support Project SNOWstorm!

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Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. So they are raising money to buy more. And, oddly, it seems that no one knows too much about what these visitors from the north are up to while they are down here. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. That is not cheap.

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Where have they gone?

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Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. .” This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. In breeding plumage!