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Award-winning free-lance science journalist Nicola Jones , most noted for her work on climate change and environmental issues, ventured into the book world with a picture book on the wildlife rehabilitation efforts for one of North America’s most endangered bird species, the Northern Spotted Owl.
The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered ” under the EndangeredSpecies Act.
Every species account (well, most every account) includes information on habitat and talk briefly about range and distribution (there are no range maps in this guide); it is usually noted if the speciesbreeds in Ontario, and often noted if it is migratory or residential year-round. The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions.
At the very northern end of their breeding range in the Channel Islands, they are strictly a Californian bird as far as the U.S. Like several species, breeding Peregrines were extirpated during the height of the DDT era but have reclaimed their island domain in more recent years. is concerned.
According to an as yet unpublished update to the IUCN Red List, there are only 949 to 2,215 breeding Dholes left in the wild – which is far below the number of the world’s breeding tigers (source: the Guardian). Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India.
Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet ! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?
I was fortunate to rack up a number of lifers in 2013, both at home and abroad ( Varied Thrush in Washington, Brewer’s Blackbirds in California, Burrowing Owl in the Nevada desert). Larry adds our second owlspecies to this list of stellar birds. It was a race between the Snowy Plover and the Spotted Owl.
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These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. But what else should birders know?
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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangeredspecies for death.
Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. Another of Ghana’s forest gems, the seldom encountered Fraser’s Eagle Owl. .
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