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Fall Migration Reminds Us It is Time to Take Action on Biodiversity Loss

Fall Migration Reminds Us It is Time to Take Action on Biodiversity Loss

October 10, 2022October 8, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

As the hot North American summer fades into the cooler days of autumn/fall, tens of millions of migratory birds are traveling south every day across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico into Central and South America and the Caribbean. Over the period from late July through November, from the Boreal Forest region of Canada and Alaska […]

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Sren Solkaer was ten years old when he saw his first starling murmuration with over 100,000 birds

Sren Solkaer was ten years old when he saw his first starling murmuration with over 100,000 birds

June 14, 2022November 28, 2022 Supertrooper 1 Comment

On the west coast of Denmark, Sren Solkaer was ten years old when he saw his first starling murmuration: over 100,000 birds producing movies in the sky as they were being corralled by a falcon. It would be over 40 years before the photographer, who is best known for personal, often whimsical pictures of artists […]

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Over 1,500 Birds Flew into Philly Skyscrapers and Died in One Day

Over 1,500 Birds Flew into Philly Skyscrapers and Died in One Day

October 18, 2020October 10, 2020 Supertrooper 2 Comments

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, up to 1,500 birds were killed by a large skyscraper in one day. Audubon volunteers are concerned about the high rate of fatalities during migration. Stephen Maciejewski, a 71-year-old retired social worker and volunteer for Audubon Pennsylvania, told the Inquirer, “So many birds were falling out of the sky, we […]

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Covid hunger – Kenyans forced to hunt giraffe for food

Covid hunger – Kenyans forced to hunt giraffe for food

August 31, 2020August 30, 2020 Supertrooper 2 Comments

In parts of Kenya, the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has been so catastrophic that people have started to kill endangered wildlife for food. Last week, The Telegraph trekked with rangers through the Tsavo conservation area, a region larger than Wales in southeastern Kenya, and found a Masai giraffe which had been stripped […]

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British birds’ long-distance feats and longevity are revealed

British birds’ long-distance feats and longevity are revealed

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Flying around the world may have become an unappealing prospect or a distant dream for most people during the coronavirus crisis. If you are a Manx shearwater, however, there is no limit to your long-distance travel, and one of these small seabirds from the Hebridean isle of Rùm was last year clocked journeying more than […]

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Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird’s epic migration stunned scientists

Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird’s epic migration stunned scientists

July 7, 2020February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 3 Comments

When Onon took off above the rolling hills of the Khurkh valley in Mongolia last June, researchers had no idea if they would see him alive again. Along with one oriental cuckoo and three other common cuckoos, each fitted with a tiny tracking device, he was about to embark on an epic journey to southern […]

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‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

April 21, 2020February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Coastal GasLink paid $171,000 to kill wolves in the range of an endangered caribou herd that will lose critical habitat to the company’s pipeline for a gas export project, The Narwhal has learned. The money for a winter wolf cull in Hart Ranges caribou habitat, northeast of Prince George, was part of $1.5 million the […]

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Birds are Shrinking Because of Climate Change

Birds are Shrinking Because of Climate Change

January 16, 2020February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

A new report from scientists show birds are getting smaller. The cause? Rising temperatures from climate change. The study examined birds over a 40 year period. Birds‘ wings are getting longer, legs are getting shorter and their bodies are shrinking. Over 70,000 birds were measured from 52 different species, between 1978 and 2016. The study […]

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