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The Duck Stamp and The Wildlife Conservation Stamp Living in Symbiosis?

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We have a simple solution to raise more money for the National Wildlife Refuge System. This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. A lot more money! Let’s look at some facts. A 2011 survey by the U.S.

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The Dance of the Albatross

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It can take over a year to raise a chick for the larger species, and even species that can fit their entire breeding cycle into one year tend not to breed in consecutive years. This is because raising a chick is not just time consuming, it’s an effort that requires real investment.

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Support Project SNOWstorm!

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So they are raising money to buy more. Do it for science! Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. Unlike Desi, the researchers involved don’t think the owls are curling up in a nice warm bed in a hut in the woods, but they don’t have much better answers than that, at least not yet. That is where YOU come in!

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. Three papers coming out of the study are in peer review, and the research continues, with citizen science opportunities and additional data partnerships anticipated in the near future. The time to act is now.

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An unusual auk baby

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Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy. The species readily takes to nesting in small artificial boxes, and the scientists of PRBO Conservation Science have over 450 such boxes scattered across the island to monitor the species. Some birds pump em out by the dozen in the hope that at least one or two survive.

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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan

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Here is what the paper says: “In the first group, we added a blue, non-mimetic egg to the nest of the host, while in the second group we added a blue, non-mimetic egg and a peanut half-shell.” So, potentially plenty of cuckoo chicks would have been raised by the bulbuls.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. found that the Neoaves split in two just before the K-Pg boundary, and they named the groups Columbea and Passerea. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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