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8/25/2008
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FL
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Fay's high winds hit beachside birds hard ... 300 to 400 Barn Swallows found dead at Apollo Beach ...
(Daytona Beach News-Journal)
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8/25/2008
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CA
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California Condor lost in wildfire ... had been released by San Diego Zoo ...
(Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News)
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8/25/2008
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AK
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Field of a thousand cranes draws visitors to Creamer's Field in Fairbanks ... (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
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8/25/2008
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SD
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Chase Lake NWR reaches its 100th birthday ... Piping Plovers, Sprague’s Pipits, LeConte’s, Nelson’s
Sharptailed, and Baird’s Sparrows ... (Daily Republic)
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8/25/2008
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SD
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PHOTOGALLERY ... Chase Lake NWR ... (Daily Republic)
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8/25/2008
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FL
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Comment sought on plans to fill in marsh for Metropica ... endangered Wood Stork may be affected ...
through Sept. 3 ... (Sun-Sentinel)
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8/25/2008
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NC
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BALD HEAD ISLAND - A pretty feather in a cap on the Carolina shore ... has one of the country's largest
populations of breeding Painted Buntings ... (Boston Globe)
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8/25/2008
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VA
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Hawk watchers flock to Afton Mountain ... (News Virginian)
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8/24/2008
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FL
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Animals caught in flood brought to refuge ... including a few birds ... (WPTV)
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8/24/2008
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New paper suggests that owl feces and prey remains could act as previously unrecognized visual signals ...
(Science Daily)
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8/24/2008
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CA
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From a single feather comes a tale of wild life and death ... (San Francisco Chronicle)
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8/24/2008
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VIDEOLINK ... Australian wetlands threatened ... (National Geographic)
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8/24/2008
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UK
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Hundreds of British birdwatchers flock to see Stilt Sandpiper ... strayed from America ... (BBC News)
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8/24/2008
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UK
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Scottish Government unveils pilot project to tackle the "menace" of urban seagulls ... (BBC News)
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8/23/2008
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CA
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Marines release Red-tailed Hawk ... took a direct hit from a golf ball over the base links ...
(Los Angeles Times)
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8/23/2008
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MN
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BOOKREVIEW ... Three Mad Birders by Luke Dempsey ... (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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8/23/2008
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CT
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Vagrant hummers showing up at Conn. feeders ... Rufous, Calliope, Broad-billed ... (Danbury News-Times)
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8/23/2008
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NC
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Swallow-tailed Kite makes rare appearance in the N.C. Piedmont region ... (Charlotte Observer)
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8/23/2008
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NJ
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5th annual Meadowlands Festival of Birding set for Sept. 13-14 ... 280 species of birds, 22 mammals, 50
fish, 400 plants ... (Star-Ledger)
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8/23/2008
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MA
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SCITUATE - Party-goers, Piping Plovers at odds over secluded spit ... (Patriot Ledger)
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8/23/2008
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INDIA - Canal to be diverted around the only remaining habitat of the Critically Endangered Jerdon’s
Courser ... (Birdlife International)
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8/22/2008
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RI
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Bird flu detected in Rhode Island ... in four swans found in the Seekonk River ... (Eyewitness News)
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8/22/2008
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FL
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Fay skirts Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary ... workers had packed birds into scores of boxes for possible
relocation ... (WTSP)
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8/22/2008
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TX
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Dogs break into El Paso Zoo ... kill Sandhill Crane known as Dakota ... (KFOXtv.com)
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8/22/2008
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FL
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Bonita Springs won't fight state's Bald Eagle ruling ... allows construction within 100 yards of historic
nest ... (News-Press)
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8/22/2008
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CO
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Golden Eagle released ... white Red-tailed Hawk continues to recuperate ... (9NEWS)
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8/22/2008
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MN
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Family of Pileated Woodpeckers wreak havoc on church's steeple ... "It was like there was a chainsaw up
there" ... (Stillwater Gazette)
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8/22/2008
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IL
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Black-bellied Whistling Duck spotted at Hennepin-Hopper lakes ... (Chicago Sun-Times)
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8/22/2008
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NY
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'Superdove' scribe sees grace, beauty in Pigeons ... a "marvel of nature and not simply a pest" ...
(USA Today)
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8/22/2008
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NC
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OCRACOKE - Popular Cape Hatteras fishing beach reopens ... as endangered birds and turtles clear out of
nests ... (AP/News & Record)
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8/22/2008
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NY
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Great Blue dines of $80 fish ... acquired taste for backyard water garden comets and koi ... (Buffalo News)
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8/22/2008
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VT
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RICHMOND - Neighbors angered by farmer's cannon fire ... kabooms scare birds away from blueberries ...
(Fox News)
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8/22/2008
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MA
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PLUM ISLAND - Birding for breast cancer ... Sunday from 8 to 10 a.m. at Parker River NWR ...
(Daily News of Newburyport)
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8/22/2008
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GA
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Georgia’s 6th annual Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival ... set for Oct. 9-13 ...
(Creative Coast Initiative)
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8/22/2008
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OH
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Meet Ohio’s finest bird artists and authors Sunday 1 to 5 ... Kaufman, Rosche, Semroc Mollenkopf, Zwiebel
Brumfield ... (Plain Dealer)
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8/22/2008
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CANADA - Yearly drop in Golden Eagle count worries researcher ... down over 25% since the early 1990's ...
(Vancouver Sun)
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8/22/2008
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SOUTH AFRICA - Peregrine Falcon sets up home at Newsprinters ... in sign at the front of the factory ...
(Graphic Repro)
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8/21/2008
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FL
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Whooping Cranes back home after evacuation for Tropical storm Fay ... (Bay News 9)
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8/21/2008
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Houghton Mifflin puts out new edition of Peterson ... (Springfield News-Leader)
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8/21/2008
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UK
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Brits import the "big wheel rotary ditcher" from America ... to create wetlands for birds ... (BBC News)
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8/21/2008
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UK
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VIDEOLINK ... the "big wheel rotary ditcher" ... (BBC News)
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8/21/2008
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FL
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Birds stealing bait often get hooked ... particularly by people fishing live herrings without sinkers at
the Sanibel Pier ... (News-Press)
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8/21/2008
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Don't trust any bird magazine under 30! ... Bird Watcher's Digest celebrates its 30th year ... (PR Web)
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8/21/2008
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PERU - New BirdLife report indicates that many sites and species in Peru urgently need protection ...
(Birdlife International)
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8/20/2008
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CA
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Pelicans dying in fishing lines off Santa Cruz ... "I've never seen that many at one time" ...
(Monterey County Herald)
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8/20/2008
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Researchers find new parasite in Galápagos Penguins ... probably introduced by tourists ... (New York Times)
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8/20/2008
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New study finds Magpies able to recognize their own reflections ... (Daily Mail)
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8/20/2008
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CA
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Rescue center plea for help ($$$) for treating 150 injured pelicans ... (abc7news.com)
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8/20/2008
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NM
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USF&WS plans change in eagle management ... (Cibola County Beacon)
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8/20/2008
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TX
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Latest measures to protect eagles could do the opposite ... as USF&WS proposes new permit system ...
(Austin American-Statesman)
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8/20/2008
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FL
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Orlando-area conference focuses on peaceful co-existence for airports, eagles ... (Orlando Sentinel)
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8/20/2008
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NC
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National Seashore wants to remove raccoons ... to determine if it will help endangered birds ... (AP/WBTV)
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8/20/2008
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NJ
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Stone Harbor to use settlement money to build birdwatching platforms ... overlooking Stone Harbor Point ...
(Press of Atlantic City)
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8/20/2008
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UK
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Police investigating suspected deliberate killings of Black-headed Gulls ... population has fallen by
40% ... (BBC News)
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8/19/2008
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FL
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Swelling human population crowding Florida's wildlife ... fragmented habitat will put the squeeze on the
state's wild species ... (ENS)
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8/19/2008
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TX
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South Texas birding experts talk about Hummingbirds ... (KIII TV3)
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8/19/2008
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PA
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PGC seeks public comment on draft Woodcock plan ... plan includes goal of rebuilding populations ... (PGC)
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8/19/2008
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VA
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State boosts bid for Crow's Nest ... environmentally sensitive peninsula is a rare property ...
(Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star )
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8/19/2008
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NY
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WATERTOWN - Tim Gallagher to speak Friday at Jefferson CC ... (Watertown Daily Times)
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8/19/2008
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UK
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Sir David Attenborough steps forward as a BirdLife Species Champion for the critically endangered Araripe
Manakin ... (Birdlife International)
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8/18/2008
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CANADA - Peregrine Falcon removed from Ontario's endangered list ... (Cnews)
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8/18/2008
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HI
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More than 100 rare Laysan ducks found dead ... avian botulism is suspected ... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
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8/18/2008
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AK
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Homesteader's dying wish preserves rest stop for Sandhill Cranes ... (Anchorage Daily News)
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8/18/2008
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SC
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New raptor center opens to the public near Charleston ... provides guided tours through its aviaries ...
(AP/News & Observer)
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8/18/2008
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MD
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Deer eating plants, destroying habitat at Soldiers Delight NEA ... home to the state's largest collection
of rare and endangered plants and insects ... (Baltimore Sun)
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8/17/2008
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CA
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Enough is enough! ... officials say Egret's guano is killing redwoods and pines ... (Los Angeles Times)
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8/17/2008
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DC
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Regardless of size or location, species share a common threat - man ... and new regs make their survival
even more difficult ... (Washington Post)
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8/17/2008
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FL
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Birds flock to community lakes at The Reserve at Estero ... (Naples Daily News)
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8/17/2008
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OH
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CINCINNATI - Birds flock where bombs were once born ... (AP/Erie Times-News)
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8/17/2008
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NY
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Rockaway Beach area fenced to protect Piping Plovers' nesting ground ... (New York Daily News)
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8/17/2008
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CANADA - The ways and days of birding have changed ... (Belleville Intelligencer)
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8/16/2008
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COSTA RICA - Screech Owl researchers attacked with machetes by locals ... mistaken for thieves ...
(National Geographic)
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8/16/2008
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DNA analysis reveals that bird first seen in 2001 is in fact a new species ... thought at first to be
an immature forest robin ... (Science Daily)
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8/16/2008
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CA
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Construction begins on San Diego border fence ... enviro groups say it threatens home of more than 370 bird
species ... (AP/Yahoo! News)
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8/16/2008
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MN
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Birds that died on Minn. lakes test positive for Newcastle disease ... more than 900 Double-crested
Cormorants affected ... (AP/Star Tribune)
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8/16/2008
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AK
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Researchers return to civilization from Kodiak NWR ... were researching Kittlitz’s Murrelets ...
(Kodiak Daily Mirror)
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8/16/2008
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MA
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Noah Strycker talks about birding with an iPod ... (Living on the Earth)
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8/16/2008
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CT
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Making peace with the woodpeckers ... (New York Times)
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8/16/2008
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NY
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ALBANY - Surveys seek to define status of Nightjars ... (AP/Newsday)
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8/16/2008
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VA
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Birding and Wildlife Festival set for Sept. 18-21 ... (Tasley Eastern Shore News)
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8/16/2008
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UK
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Buzzards spread wings across UK ... but where have the Kestrels gone? ... (Independent)
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8/15/2008
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UK
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New study shows hen harriers and waders can live together ... (Surfbirds News)
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8/15/2008
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CA
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Feral cats have nearly wiped out San Jose's Burrowing Owls ... (KCBS)
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8/15/2008
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UK
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Report says UK bird species laying eggs significantly earlier than they were 40 years ago ... (BBC News)
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8/15/2008
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CHINA - Birds at home in the 'Birds Nest' ... (AP/NBC)
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8/15/2008
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FL
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Judge leaves Everglades reservoir work on hold ... benefits of U.S. Sugar deal worth the delay ...
(Sun-Sentinel)
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8/15/2008
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SD
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Raptor biologists lead community project to re-introduce Osprey in S.D. ... (Yankton Press and Dakotan)
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8/15/2008
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PA
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56th Hawk Watch season started at Waggoner's Gap ... sees more Golden Eagles than anyplace else ...
(Carlisle Sentinel)
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8/15/2008
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CT
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Daring midnight rescue saves Osprey ... foot snagged in small branch 70' up ... (The Day)
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8/14/2008
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UK
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Lonely vulture gets a sweetheart ... whiff of female produces big changes in Barry's behavior ...
(BBC News)
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8/14/2008
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The Dark Side Of Internet Birding ... a call for reform ... (Birding)
(pdf)
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8/14/2008
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UK
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Photog catches sea eagles in mid-air fish tussle ... (Daily Mail)
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8/14/2008
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KY
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Baby hummingbirds cling to nest, survive 8' fall to ground ... when homeowner lops off branch holding
nest ... (Louisville Courier-Journal)
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8/14/2008
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OR
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Feds trim Spotted Owl lands by 23 percent ... deal roils both timber companies and environmentalists ...
(The Oregonian)
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8/14/2008
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FL
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Enviro groups ask judge to halt Everglades restoration project ... could jeopardized U.S. Sugar deal ...
(Miami Herald)
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8/14/2008
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FL
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Tribe asks judge to resume Everglades restoration project ... costing taxpayers $1.9 mil a month to wait
for decision ... (Sun-Sentinel)
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8/14/2008
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FL
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VIDEOLINK ... tribe asks judge to resume project ... (Sun-Sentinel)
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8/14/2008
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IL
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Ecologists hope Barn Owl takes to Fermilab ... project aims to rejuvenate population in IL ...
(Chicago Tribune)
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8/14/2008
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ND
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Peregrine rescued from inside 40-foot-tall sign ... atop The Forum building ... (In-Forum)
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8/14/2008
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ND
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VIDEOLINK ... Peregrine rescued from inside sign ... (In-Forum)
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8/14/2008
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NH
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Piping Plovers doing well in NH ... 6 chicks fledged this year ... (AP/WCAX)
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8/14/2008
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PA
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Peregrine hatchling discovered on Scudder Falls Bridge on I-95 ... (All Around Philly)
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8/14/2008
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NJ
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STONE HARBOR - The birds are back in town ... after 5-year effort clears phragmites, vines, feral cats ...
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
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8/14/2008
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MA
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LOWELL - State to test dead ducks for avian flu ... (Lowell Sun)
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8/14/2008
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DE
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WILMINGTON - Sandhill Cranes relocated to temporary quarters ... as Brandywine Zoo reopens after damaging
storm ... (CBS 3)
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8/14/2008
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SOUTH AFRICA - Oiled penguins rescued off Cape coast ... (Cape Argus)
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8/13/2008
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WA
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Spotted Owl's numbers keep falling ... due to Barred Owls and logging ... (Seattle Times)
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8/13/2008
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WA
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VIDEOLINK ... Washington state owls ... (Seattle Times)
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8/13/2008
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OR
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New threats to the Spotted Owl prompt lawsuit on the Elliott SF ... (CBD)
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8/13/2008
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NJ
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Study shows new sounds change bird brain cells ... (UPI)
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8/13/2008
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SD
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Missouri River sandbar project proceeding well ... Terns and Plovers seem to like them ...
(Yankton Daily Press)
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8/13/2008
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Drier conditions on the prairies may be reason survey finds ducks breeding farther north ...
(Ithaca Journal)
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8/13/2008
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TX
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Newest Texas Paddling Trail to open on Lake Arlington ... birds include Great Blue Heron, American White
Pelican, Osprey, Belted Kingfisher, Double-crested Cormorant and Ring-billed Gull ... (all of which taste like chicken) ... (Pegasus News)
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8/13/2008
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MD
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Plovers' numbers decreasing on Assateague ... need more storms and hurricanes to refresh habitat ...
(Daily Times)
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8/13/2008
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PA
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Albemarle Tyrone plant opens public nature trail ... in central Penna. ... (Yahoo! Finance)
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8/13/2008
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UK
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Nesting Great Skuas attack couple who became lost on hills on Orkney ... rescued by helicopter ...
(BBC News)
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