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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

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During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. Since 1974 it has been illegal to harvest birds there with mist-nets and limesticks. 168 Winning total.

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What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share The national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw. Their plumage is simply amazing and the colors are astounding.

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Spotlight: Lisa Beth Acton, Raising Ravens

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This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens. He meant well, but his research told him to feed them Exact parrot formula – which is NOT a diet for ravens. They were not aware of wildlife laws, and thought they could raise and release them. She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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When one Chinese researcher was very bored, he had a bright idea: Why not publish a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Rhinoceros Hornbill ? Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) The Wreathed Hornbill is also listed as Vulnerable. .”

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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While it is laudable to publish a paper about the threat to laughingthrushes (including this) by the bird trade, I still feel that lame-joke titles such as “Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia” should be avoided.

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A Little Win

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There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

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