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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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That was terrible for a lot of people, but especially for the Dusky Seaside Sparrow , a small streaked bird that had the dreadful temerity to dwindle and fade and finally become extinct despite the combined best efforts of the United States government and Walt Disney World. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Endangered Birds: 50th Anniversary for the Class of 1967

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Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. California Condor – Gymnogyps californianus. The first list of U.S.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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For example, in California, populations of birds like Aleutian Cackling Goose have dramatically increased…but where did our Fulvous Whistling-Ducks go? We have more California Condors , Bald Eagles , and Peregrine Falcons , but there seem to be less Spotted Owls , Burrowing Owls , Sooty Shearwaters.

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Collaborative List – July 2019

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They accounted for 562 species at this sluggish time of year. California Condor – Gymnogyps californianus. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Black-chested Sparrow – Peucaea humeralis. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus.

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Corporate Branding of Birds for Conservation: A Modest Proposal

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Or a pipit, or a weaver, or a finch, or…” *don’t say sparrow* I told myself. Sparrow polls really bad. That species could use a cash infusion right away.” ” “The California Condor ? .” ” “The California Condor ?” You know it does.*.

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