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Captive Breeding Saves Bali Starlings From Poaching, Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, birds, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 12 hours ago - thejakartapost.com
Widespread poaching of the endangered Bali starling has subsided and its population has started to grow again, thanks to individuals and conservation groups in Bali carrying out captive breeding of the bird species.
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Endemic Critically Endangered Puerto Rican Nightjar More Widespread Than Thought
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A new study of the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican nightjar Caprimulgus noctitherus suggests that the species' geographic range is greater than previously estimated. This is the major finding of Geographic distribution of the Puerto Rican Nightjar:
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Critically Endangered Floreana Mockingbird to Be Reintroduced to Floreana
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT), with its partner on Galapagos, The Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), is launching a £60,000 campaign to help save the bird that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution from extinction and reintroduce it to its
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Red Kites Spreading Into England From Wales
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, red kites, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 4 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
For the first time, staff at Wildlife Extra spotted a red kite outside our own office in Herefordshire. We have recived a few reports of sightings locally in the last year, at the Weir Gardens (National Trust) in March 2009, Dilwyn in June and Brampton
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Dozens of Budgies Drop Dead During Country Show
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, abuse, killed, death, cruelty )

Maria
- 4 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Owners fearing a gas leak - canaries have highly sensitive respiratory systems and were once used down mines to detect leaks - grabbed their cages and ran for the door. Some of the birds, which are worth around £1,000 each - were revived out
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New Life for Croatia's Griffon Vultures
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, birds, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 8 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Griffon vultures are extinct in many European countries and are endangered in Croatia, but this sanctuary at the picturesque village of Beli has rescued, healed and released 95 birds since it was set up in 1993.
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Gov't Says Brown Pelicans Are Endangered No Longer
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, pelicans, wildlife )

Maria
- 8 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction. Interior Department officials on Wednesday announced that they were taking the bird off the endangered species list,
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An Albatross Dies Every Five Minutes
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, birds, wildlife )

Maria
- 9 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Long line fishing is being blamed for a startling drop in the number of albatrosses around the world. Fish, squid and other bait are trailed on hooks behind a trawler to catch tuna and swordfish
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Great Spotted Woodpeckers Confirmed Breeding in Ireland for the First Time
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, woodpeckers, breeding, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 9 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Twelve months ago we reported on the marked increase in sightings of Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Ireland over the last couple of years. Unprecedented activity in the spring of 2008, which included several birds drumming and a pair performing courtship
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A New Life for Croatia's Griffon Vultures
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, birds, griffon vultures, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 9 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Rescued and nurtured for nearly a year, then fitted with a satellite transmitter, Letricia appeared reluctant at first to leave its island sanctuary and embark on its long and uncertain migration.
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Unusual Migration of Eleonora's Falcon Revealed
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, falcons, migration, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 10 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Two recent studies have revealed new information on the migration routes of Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae, tracking the birds 9,500 km from their European breeding colonies to their main non-breeding grounds in Madagascar.
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The Trashy Toxicity of Pollution
Animals  (tags: birds, wildlfe, environment, pollution, rubbish, humans, destruction, wildlife killed )

Simone
- 10 days ago - blog.peta.org
Litter isn't just ugly and dirty--it kills. Artist Chris Jordan took a series of photographs of albatross chicks, and the photos are so surreal that I thought they were part of some strange pop-art installation meant to shock and disturb the viewer.
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An Albatross Dies Every Five Minutes
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, albatross, birds, death, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 11 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Once cursed with killing dolphins, tuna fishing is now being blamed for a shocking reduction in albatross numbers.
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$3 Million Pledged to Help Stem Hawaiian Bird Extinction Crisis
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, Hawaii, crisis, extinction, environment, AnimalWelfare, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 12 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
President Obama has signed into law a key bill that included critically needed funding to address the looming bird extinction crisis in Hawaii. The 2010 Interior, Environmental, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill had been passed by Congress and
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Forgotten Victims - Parent Birds
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, parents, suffering, death, protection )

Cher
- 12 days 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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