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May, 2009

  • 2 May

    Hundreds of dead birds wash up on Calif. beaches

    Brandt

    Wildlife officials say hundreds of dead sea birds are washing up on beaches from Marin to Monterey, and suspect a problem with their food supply may be to blame. Hundreds of Brandt”s cormorants began washing up on beaches in mid-April, surprising sea bird experts who had seen the bird”s population …

April, 2009

  • 26 April

    RSPB call to curb seabird slaughter

    Credits: Wikipedia

    The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has called on Greenland to stop hunters slaughtering seabirds after research linked the destruction with declining populations across Europe. Every summer the country’s thousands of hunters attack the roosting colonies of seabirds such as kittiwakes, eider ducks and guillemots, often shooting …

  • 24 April

    Dog kills 50 wedge-tailed shearwaters in Molokai preserve

    The Nature Conservancy photo

    A loose dog killed 50 adult wedge-tailed shearwaters yesterday at a breeding colony at The Nature Conservancy”s Moomomi Beach Preserve.

  • 16 April

    Three new birds on the critical list

    NZbirds.com. CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: Top to bottom: the eastern rockhopper penguin, the grey duck, and the grey-headed mollymawk have been added to the list of critically endangered New Zealand birds.

    Three bird species have joined the likes of the kakapo, the black robin and the rowi kiwi on the list of critically endangered New Zealand birds. The conservation status of 428 birds was assessed by a panel of experts in a three-yearly review to identify those most in need of …

  • 15 April

    Climate change makes migrations longer for birds

    Credits: Wikipedia

    Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds. A team of scientists, led by Durham University, have published findings that show that the marathon flights undertaken by birds to …

  • 10 April

    Palin Administration Ignores Science in Denying State Endangered Species Act Protection to Kittlitz’s Murrelet

    Credits: Wikipedia

    Today the Alaska Department of Fish and Game denied a petition to protect the imperiled Kittlitz’s murrelet under Alaska’s Endangered Species Act. This Alaska seabird is declining precipitously due to threats from global warming, oil pollution, and fisheries-bycatch mortality that have placed it on a trajectory to extinction.

March, 2009

  • 29 March

    Save South Africa’s penguins, give them a home

    A bird walks past with a penguin egg in its mouth on the beach at Simons Town, South Africa, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Credits: Schalk van Zuydam

    Nesting in the sparkling sand, preening on the rocks and darting through the waters, the penguins on the southern tip of Africa are the ultimate crowd-pleaser. But crisis looms. Short of food, exposed to predators and the African sun, their numbers are plummeting. But salvation may rest in a simple …

  • 29 March

    800 dead penguins found dead in Southern Chile

    Credits: Wikipedia

    In just the past few days, hundreds of dead magellanic penguins (Spheniscus Magellanicus) have washed ashore in Chile’s Region XI, the daily La Tercera reported Sunday. So far experts are in the dark about what’s killing the sea birds, more than 800 of which have been found on the beaches …

  • 26 March

    Eagle endangered by fishing line

    Credits: Wikipedia

    Every morning, photographer David Gray comes to a Pinellas County cemetery to shoot photos of a pair of eagles and their two eaglets. Wednesday, he got shots of the mother eagle and the babies, but there were no sign of the father eagle.  “Typically, he”s in and out every hour …

  • 24 March

    Twenty years on, some birds still haven’t recovered from Exxon Valdez oil spill

    Wildlife was severely affected by the oil spill. Credits: Wikipedia

    Twenty years ago today—at 12:04 AM on March 24th, 1989—the Exxon Valdez tanker struck Bligh reef in Prince William Sound causing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil to spill into the sea. The spill decimated the ecosystem and wildlife for 11,000 square miles and became one of the world”s most …

  • 19 March

    U.S. birds threatened by habitat loss, invasives, report says

    Credits: Wikipedia

    Almost a third of the 800 bird species in the United States are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, according to a report released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Over the last 40 years, the loss of habitat, destruction by invasive species and other threats caused a …

February, 2009

  • 26 February

    Study links seabird deaths to soap-like foam

    Algal blooms

    In late 2007, hundreds of dead and stranded seabirds washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, their feathers saturated with water and coated with an unknown substance. After an intensive investigation, scientists determined that a massive “red tide” bloom of marine algae had produced a foamy soap-like substance that …