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Animals News tagged with Birds

Starlings Swarm at WWT Slimbridge! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, starlings, swarming, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 19 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
One of Gloucestershire's most mesmerising natural phenomenon has to be the sight of thousands of starlings flocking in the skies.
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Turkey Fat Extremely Dangerous for Birds Warns RSPB
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, turkey fat, wildlife, protection, environment )

Cher
- 2 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Many people put the leftover contents of Christmas dinner roasting tins outside, wrongly believing that it is as beneficial to birds as other fats like lard and suet. Suggestions that pouring the fat onto bird tables, or mixing it with seed in the belief
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ACTION ALERT: Do What I Can to Increase Public Awareness of the Suffering of Captive Birds.!!!
Animals  (tags: birds, captivity, welfare, wild birds, torn from wild, caged, public awareness )

Simone
- 3 days ago - animalwelfare.change.org
Born Free USA uses a variety of methods to increase public awareness of the suffering of captive birds, to end the sale of birds in retail venues, and to enact regulations against the wild bird trade. We work to reduce the number of wild-caught and
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Massive Hunt for Potentially Extinct Slender-Billed Curlew Launched
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The largest ever attempt to rediscover a possibly extinct species will be mounted this winter with teams of skilled volunteer observers scouring more than 35 countries around the Mediterranean, Middle East and the Indian subcontinent in the hope of
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Goldcrests Numbers Crash While Firecrests Thrive
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 4 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Several Bird Observatories have reported a distinct lack of Goldcrests, backed up by anecdotal reports from many birders. The apparent population crash is reflected by the BirdTrack reporting rate which shows that they have featured on less than half
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Wind Power Vs. Birds: Are They Really Mortal Enemies?
Animals  (tags: wind turbines, controversy, wind energy, birds, killed )

Simone
- 11 days ago - animalwelfare.change.org
Whenever wind energy comes up in conversation, there are inevitably protests from people concerned about bird deaths associated with turbines. It's time to settle the score between birds and wind power. When wind turbines first began to sprout around
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Bird Feeders Alter Migration Patterns, Detrimental to Evolution
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, migration, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 15 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Bird feeders have become a big trend in North America and Europe, especially those areas that face cooler winters with changing seasons. Many feel like they're doing birds a favor by offering them feeders with seed to feed them during the winter when
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Jail Sentence for Maltese Drug Trafficker in Possession of Dead Protected Bird Species
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, protected, sentenced, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 15 days ago - iar.org.uk
He was also found unanimously guilty of breaching administrative law enforcement regulations governing the protection of wildlife and possessing dead protected birds in a chest freezer. In all he had 20 dead birds, namely black-necked grebe, cormorant,
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Protected Owl Caught in Barbaric Steel-Jawed Leghold Trap
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, owl, animalcruelty, abuse, wildlife )

Maria
- 18 days ago - opposingviews.com
In the world of wildlife killing, there is perhaps no method more inhumane and more indiscriminate than the steel-jawed leghold trap. This was confirmed once again in Connecticut last week when a federally protected barred owl was caught in one of the bar
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Golden Eagles to Get Protection Boost in Scotland
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, golden eagles, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 19 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
One of Scotland's most iconic birds could soon receive better protection from damaging developments and disturbance; a move that is applauded by RSPB Scotland
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Wildlife Poisoning in Africa
Animals  (tags: News, Animal, Wildlife, Birds, Africa )

Katie
- 20 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
BirdLife has learnt that a widely available poison is being used to kill thousands of birds illegally every month in an area of Kenya, and by game poachers in Botswana to kill vultures. The poisoning of wildlife seems to have increased across Africa......
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New Method for Counting Birds and Other Species Revealed
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, birds, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 23 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate estimates of bird species'
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Red Kite Poisoned in Northern Ireland
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, red kites, poisoned, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 25 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A Red kite has been killed in Northern Ireland. The kite, which was just five months old, was found beside a rabbit carcass that had been laced with the illegal poison alphachloralose. The kite was found dead on 8 October 2009 in Co Down.
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First 'No-Shooting' Shorebird Refuge Established in Barbados
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 26 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
BirdLife International has created Barbados' first shorebird refuge at an abandoned shooting swamp at Woodbourne, close to the village of Packers. Woodbourne is a four hectare swamp on the flank of the St. Philip Shooting Swamps Important Bird Area (IBA)
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Europe's Red Kites Down By 30-40%
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, red kites, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 27 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Numbers on the bird's main wintering grounds in Europe have halved since 1994 and there have been big falls in the number of breeding pairs in its heartlands of Spain, France and Germany. In fact, so alarming is the drop in numbers that the EU has now
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