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First Video of Marvelous Spatuletail Hummingbird's Amazing Courtship

Category: Birds

This is truly amazing. Of course, since this is the first such video, how do we know if this particular little guy is doing it right? First video of the Marvelous Spatuletail Hummingbird's amazing courtship display by Greg R. Homel, Natural Elements Productions and distributed...

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Golden Eagle # 49 has Entered the Building

Category: Birds

You know the drill: Someone claims to see a golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) but then some wise-ass bird expert has to tell them that "Immature bald eagles are often mistaken for golden eagles. You saw a bald eagle, not a golden eagle." Reminds me of...

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Bird Life International's Position on Climate Change

Category: Birds

The scientific evidence is overwhelming and unequivocal, climate change is a stark reality. It is largely caused by human activities and it presents very serious global risks for people and biodiversity around the world and it demands an urgent global response. Human activities, especially the...

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The Fiji Petrel went extinct 130 years ago. But then it got better.

Category: Species Coming and Going

The last wild Fiji petral specimen collected, an albatross-like bird (as petrels tend to be) that spends much of its time over the open sea, was collected in 1855 fro Gau Island, Fiji. It didn't really go extinct, because in 1984 one was caught on...

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Silence of the Loons

Category: Notes from the North Country

The loons have been strangely silent all weekend, and I have been singularly distracted from them, so it was not until this morning that I realized that the adults are gone....

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Acting for the survival of the species (a falsehood)

Category: Falsehoods

As the mother cougar approached the flood and all hope seemed to diminish, the narrator said "The mother cougar, driven by an instinct to save her species, searched desperately for any sign of the third kitten, who represented the next generation of cougars."

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How do you tell when a bird is really extinct?

Category: Birds

BirdLife International is launching a global bid to try to confirm the continued existence of 47 species of bird that have not been seen for up to 184 years. The list of potentially lost birds is a tantalising mix of species ranging from some inhabiting...

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Let The Eagle Soar

Category: Birds

Golden Eagle I hope I won't disappoint you ... this is not about John Ashcroft. It is about golden eagles (actually, maybe its about one golden eagle in particular)....

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When the eagles are disturbed ...

Category: Notes from the North Country

"Kerrrrrrr... Kerrrrrrr.... " said the eagle. NOT!

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Change of plans. We'll be at Crane Meadows Looking for Cranes

Category: Notes from the North Country

I had responded to the general in query "Where are you going to look for birds this weekend" by simply noting that we'd be going to "The Lake" (Minnesotan for a particular lake, the exact lake determined by context). But on the way up Amanda...

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