birds
India’s government has released a draft of an ambitious, 10-year plan to protect hundreds of threatened and endangered bird species. The draft is comprehensive, and includes recovery plans for endangered species, as well as a “landscape approach” that can protect birds in cities, and conserve critical habitat including wetlands and coastal regions. Subcontinent of birds […]
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And now for some good news about the spoon-billed sandpiper, which has the dubious distinction of being the world’s rarest wading-bird species. Conservationists netted several big wins in preserving habitat along the spoon-billed sandpiper’s migration route. And scientists in the United Kingdom announced that they successfully bred the bird in captivity for the first time. […]
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The recent discovery of a “lost world” in the Wallacea region of Indonesia has stunned scientists and conservationists. In the dense mountain rain forests of three remote Indonesian islands, five unknown bird species — and as many subspecies — have remained hidden until now. The Peleng Fantail, Taliabu Grasshopper-Warbler, and other newly described birds were introduced to […]
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The Endangered Species Act’s latest success story is a photogenic bird with a bright yellow chest, a gray-blue back and wings, and an intricate, pulsing lilt of a song. Three decades ago there were only about 200 singing male Kirtland’s warblers left in the world. And their picky breeding habits — they only build nests […]
> Read MoreAt most, the world population of Bahama nuthatches (Sitta pusilla insularis) in modern times was only a few hundred, entirely restricted to pine forests on Grand Bahama Island. As is so often the case with birds restricted to tiny areas, the subspecies was extremely vulnerable to habitat modification. Already suffering from fire and development, the […]
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