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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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I discovered that they nest on Protection Island, which is off the northeastern coast of the Olympic Peninsula, just west of Port Townsend, in the Juan de Fuca Strait near where it meets Puget Sound. Protection Island and Mt. But how to get there?

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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink

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The ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989), affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for more than six decades, wrote in 1928 that “there is still a good deal of illicit gunning going on on these islands, which, if not stopped, will ultimately result in the extermination of the parrots.

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Machi the Whimbrel Gunned Down by Hunters

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And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed, in part, to protect dwindling numbers of birds that migrate across country borders. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963.

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The Pungent Smell of Success

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First up is a paper appearing in the new issue of the journal Science. That is, cuckoo nestlings shunted into Carrion Crow nests can secrete a godawful-smelling substance that keeps potential predators at bay and thereby protects their nestmates.

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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

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I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. But jobs that depend on harvesting endangered species will quickly disappear if those species are not protected.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. Some predicted that at that rate the wood stork would become extinct by the year 2000.