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Protection for a fee: Band-tailed Gulls and Red-legged Cormorants

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Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. This system of “fee” in exchange for protection from being overwhelmed by many thieves seems to work. It is, to some extent, a win-win situation.

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Best Sales Strategies Don't Include Covert Manipulation

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Similarly, manipulating a person’s opinion can be rationalized if it serves our best sales strategies to further our purpose. The Best Sales Strategies Do Not Require Rationalization “People who are covert manipulators don’t always recognize what they are doing.” It’s often a matter of degrees as to how much manipulation is too much.

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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.

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Northern Potoo

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In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy. You see, potoos don’t require a nest to protect - or hide - their eggs and young. A nesting potoo simply chooses a suitable knot in the branch, lays its egg, and its body does the protecting and the hiding.

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A Birder Attends a (Virtual) Ornithology Conference – Part II

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He then compared those habitats to protected areas, finding that much of the future habitat is currently unprotected. Thus, birds may be moving from protected areas to unprotected areas, creating a conservation mismatch. Expanded protected areas, buffer zones, and connectivity corridors may be needed to avoid local extinctions.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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To protect this woodpecker and the post-fire ecosystems it depends on throughout California, in September 2010 the Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project petitioned to list the bird under the California Endangered Species Act, earning it “candidate” status in the state, which does offer some protections for the bird.

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Can An Early Arriving Spring Bird Survive Late Snow?

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Mallard s are a good example, a hearty and endurable bird that can survive sub zero temperatures so long as they found ample supplies of food like corn and some open water to roost on and be protected from coyotes and foxes. Migration has the unknown, storms, buildings, wind turbines, glass and a surprise loss of fueling habitat.

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