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Animals News tagged with birds

Forgotten Victims - Parent Birds
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, parents, suffering, death, protection )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - all-creatures.org
Parent birds are the parents of broiler chickens, birds who are raised for their flesh. The fertilized eggs of the broiler breeding parent birds are removed daily from the shed and put into incubators for hatching. They never see their offspring who
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Bird Atlas Needs Your Bird Records - Especially Ireland, Wales & Scotland
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wildlifeextra.com
BTO started fieldwork for the third winter of the Bird Atlas 2007-11 project, the latest bid to establish distributions for every species to be found in these islands. Birdwatchers are being encouraged to take winter breaks in areas where help is still
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Progress in Plan to Save World's Rarest Duck
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, extinction, birds, ducks, wildlife )

Maria
- 1 day ago - telegraph.co.uk
Fewer than 20 Madagascar pochard are believed to be living on just one lake in the wild. The critically endangered duck is so rare that it was declared extinct in the late 1990s until scientists found a few of the birds by chance during a trip
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Pelicans Filmed Gobbling Gannets
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, pelicans, gannets, wildlife )

Maria
- 1 day ago - news.bbc.co.uk
On the island of Malgas in South Africa, the pelicans attack any gannet chick that is left undefended by its parents and is small enough to swallow. As a result, entire gannet colonies are in danger of being destroyed.
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Bid to Save This Chirpy Neighbour: Tree Sparrow Facing Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, wildlife )

Maria
- 1 day ago - halifaxcourier.co.uk
THOUSANDS of pounds have been handed over to help an endangered species of bird survive in Calderdale. The tree sparrow is facing extinction - its numbers fell by 95 per cent between 1970 and 1998.
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Bitterns and Large Flocks Arriving at WWT London
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, birds, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The first bittern of the season was seen flying over WWT London Wetland Centre on 16 October, earlier than ever, It has now settled amongst the reeds. The bird has been arriving earlier and earlier in the year since it first appeared in 2002.
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Bird Table Hygiene Is Vital - What to Do
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The RSPB is urging good hygiene around bird feeders, tables and water baths to help garden birds stay healthy this winter. Cold weather can trigger outbreaks of diseases that seriously affect garden birds, and the wildlife charity has released advice on
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The Agony in Your Pillow and Jacket: Time to Ditch the Down
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, feathers, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 4 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Despite the fact that down and its victims do not generally get as much attention as other animal products and animal victims, animal activists have been stepping up and standing up for these birds noticeably recently. First, Ari Solomon wrote an
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A Marvellous Hummingbird Display
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, hummingbirds, mating display, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The amazing mating display of the marvellous spatuletail hummingbird has been filmed in full for the first time.
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Birding in the National Parks
Animals  (tags: Birds, birding, animals, goodnews, wildanimals, wildlife, protection, animaladvocates )

Cal
- 4 days ago - audubonmagazine.org
Here are a dozen where the birds are as spectacular as the scenery.
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First Evidence for a Second Breeding Season Among Migratory Songbirds
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 5 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Biologists have, for the first time, documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.
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Starling That 'Can Talk, Mimic Mobiles and Fly at 40mph' Set for Film Role
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, starlings, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 5 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A starling called Arnie that its trainer claims can talk, mimic mobile phones and fly beside a vehicle at 40mph is to appear in a film.
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Kingfisher Dives for Its Prey in Spectacular Photograph
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, birds, wildlife )

Maria
- 5 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Kingfishers can dive at up to 25mph and are capable of catching fish two feet below the surface of the water.
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Lead Poisoning Threatens a Vulnerable Albatross Population
Animals  (tags: animals, abuse, cruelty, birds, albatross, wildlife )

Maria
- 5 days ago - ucsc.edu
Populations of Laysan albatross face severe declines due to widespread lead poisoning of chicks unless comprehensive cleanup measures gain momentum, according to a recent study.
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European Robins 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, reasearch, wildlife )

Maria
- 7 days ago - cordis.europa.eu
European robins use part of their visual centre for magnetic compass orientation during their migration, according to new research by scientists from Germany and New Zealand.
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Progress in Plan to Save World's Rarest Duck
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Bitterns and Large Flocks Arriving at WWT London
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Pelicans Filmed Gobbling Gannets
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