Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with birds www.salem-news.com 2013 In a letter sent today, over 100 conservation and scientific organizations are calling on the Obama administration to provide new protective measures for the Marbled Murrelet. The federally listed bird species population is rapidly declining. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/seabird-declines.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/seabird-declines.php Mon, 13 May 2013 22:58:00 PDT A new study by federal and university scientists has provided the first direct videographic evidence of depredation of the endangered Hawaiian Petrel by feral cats. The study affirms large amounts of earlier anecdotal evidence that feral cats are an important factor in population declines of the species... http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/cats-petrel-hawaii.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/cats-petrel-hawaii.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:07:00 PDT A new study identifies acutely toxic pesticides as the most likely leading cause of the widespread decline in grassland bird numbers in the United States. The finding challenges the widely-held assumption that loss of habitat is the primary cause of those population declines. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252013/horned-lark.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252013/horned-lark.php Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:23:00 PST The first known nest of one of the world's rarest birds - the Critically Endangered Stresemann's Bristlefront - has been discovered in Brazil. Of perhaps equal significance is that strong evidence of active nestlings was also found. The Stresemann's Bristlefront is one of the world's most threatened bird species -- unrecorded for 50 years until it was rediscovered in 1995 near Una, Bahia, in Brazil's Atlantic Forest region. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/stresemanns-bristlefront.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/stresemanns-bristlefront.php Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:58:00 PST Bird conservation groups are attacking a new political move as “one of the most regressive wildlife appropriations” ever. Crucial conservation programs were slashed by 50% of FY 2012 funding levels in a funding bill approved by the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:44:00 PDT Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are estimating that over 10,000 migrating birds have died so far this year because of reduced water flow to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and California. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/birds-die.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/birds-die.php Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:39:00 PDT A five-year cooperative effort involving several organizations has succeeded in returning the Western Bluebird to Washington’s San Juan Islands. The bird had historically inhabited the islands, but changing land use practices and a paucity of nesting sites meant the species had not nested there for over 40 years. http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/western-bluebird.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/western-bluebird.php Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:19:00 PDT A second wave of mysterious pelican injuries and deaths has occurred in the past several weeks at Topsail Island in North Carolina. About 250 pelicans died six months ago in this area from still undetermined causes. This recent incident involves about 30 pelicans that washed up on the shores either dead or so badly injured that they had to be euthanized. http://salem-news.com/articles/may112011/dead-pelicans.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may112011/dead-pelicans.php Wed, 11 May 2011 16:45:00 PDT American Bird Conservancy and Friends of the OSA today reported that three endangered Yellow-billed Cotingas were for the first time ever, captured and released unharmed near the Costa Rican town of Rincon. This rare bird about which relatively little is known is endemic to the Pacific slope mangrove forests of Panama and Costa Rica. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/rare-bird.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/rare-bird.php Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:43:00 PST Leaders of a massive, six-state, 1.1 million-acre habitat restoration initiative for wildlife and birds say restoration work has been initiated on about 130,000 acres. The project is taking place in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Illinois. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122011/bird-habitat.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122011/bird-habitat.php Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:31:00 PST It's been said that Mankind will destroy itself. Unfortunately, during the past 100 years the human race has worked hard to make this prediction come true. Nuclear arsenals can destroy Mankind many times over. http://salem-news.com/articles/january082011/animal-deaths-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january082011/animal-deaths-ta.php Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:38:00 PST Today, American Bird Conservancy announced that three iconic American bird species face especially severe threats from wind energy development. "Golden Eagles, Whooping Cranes, and Greater Sage-Grouse are likely to be among the birds most affected by poorly planned and sited wind projects,” said Kelly Fuller, Wind Program Coordinator for American Bird Conservancy, the nation’s leading bird conservation organization. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/american-birds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/american-birds.php Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:59:00 PST Peer reviews by three scientific societies reveal substantial flaws in the latest draft Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan. A key concern of the reviewers is that the plan calls for extensive logging of owl habitat to reduce fire risks, a course not backed by science... http://salem-news.com/articles/december162010/spotted-owl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december162010/spotted-owl.php Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:50:00 PST For the first time ever, the endangered Short-tailed Albatross has nested in the United States. Once thought extinct, the Short-tailed Albatross (STAL) has been restricted to only two breeding sites in the world —Torishima and the Senkaku Islands in Japan. http://salem-news.com/articles/december082010/albatross-usa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december082010/albatross-usa.php Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:35:00 PST A new, peer-reviewed report titled, Feral Cats and Their Management from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, has put the annual economic loss from feral cat predation on birds in the United States at $17 billion. The report analyzes existing research on management of the burgeoning feral cat population – over 60 million and counting -- in the United States, including the controversial practice of Trap, Neuter, Release. http://salem-news.com/articles/december012010/feral-cats.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december012010/feral-cats.php Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:52:00 PST Today at 9:45 a.m. Oregon State Troopers were called to Highway 26 at milepost 19 on a report of an EMU running in traffic at this location. OSP Trooper Mike Reel responded to the call along with Deputy Shane Jensen of the Clackamas County Sheriffs Office and the Oregon Department of Transportation, to this location and found the EMU on the north shoulder of the road. http://salem-news.com/articles/november032010/emu-capture.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november032010/emu-capture.php Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:07:00 PDT After denying a request supported by over 60 organizations and institutions nationwide to ban lead ammunition that causes massive poisoning of wildlife, the EPA has ironically just announced a campaign to prevent lead poisoning. “If there was a prize offered somewhere for the most unabashed, ironic event of the year, this would have to be the winner... http://salem-news.com/articles/october272010/animal-poison.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october272010/animal-poison.php Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:10:00 PDT Sixty-eight biodiversity conservation institutions from twenty countries aligned in the Alliance for Zero Extinction today released new data that pinpoint sites where the world’s most endangered wildlife species are restricted. http://salem-news.com/articles/october202010/halting-extinction.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october202010/halting-extinction.php Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:11:00 PDT Researchers now know that this spring, a 6-ounce Red Knot (Calidris canutus)—a shorebird only two-thirds the size of a city pigeon—flew non-stop for six days and nights, covering 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) across the Amazon and the Atlantic Ocean between southern Brazil and North Carolina, shattering the previous known Red Knot record by nearly 700 miles. In late August 2009, the same Red Knot flew non-stop for eight days between Canada’s Hudson Bay and the Caribbean, a distance of 3,167 miles (5,100 kilometers). http://salem-news.com/articles/september252010/red-knots-flight.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september252010/red-knots-flight.php Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:34:00 PDT Environmental groups are welcoming the decision by the EPA and Bayer CropScience to cease production of the pesticide aldicarb in 2014, begin phasing out its more dangerous uses immediately, and end all uses by 2018. Aldicarb, marketed under the trade name Temik® and produced by Bayer CropScience, is one of the most toxic insecticides on the market. http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/bird-pesticides.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/bird-pesticides.php Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:25:00 PDT A coalition of conservation, hunting and veterinary groups today filed a formal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency requesting a ban on the use of toxic lead in hunting ammunition and fishing tackle. http://salem-news.com/articles/august032010/bird-contamination.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august032010/bird-contamination.php Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:35:00 PDT The chimango caracara is actually a falcon. Despite its great numbers, little is known of this raptor which is a common in southern South America. It seems to take a similar niche to the Oregon crow, opportunistically eating carrion alongside roads, gleaning scraps near garbage dumps and following plows. It also consumes worms, insects and their larvae, small birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. http://salem-news.com/articles/july282010/chimango-caracara-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july282010/chimango-caracara-gp.php Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:00 PDT A new report shows how some of BP’s oil spill cleanup efforts are actually causing harm to birds and their habitats rather than helping them, that cleanup vessels are inadequate and operating in the wrong locations, and that deployed boom has failed to protect some important bird colonies from oil. http://salem-news.com/articles/july192010/oily-birds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july192010/oily-birds.php Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:30:00 PDT For me, the bird that symbolizes Patagonia is not my old nemesis the tero - who tried to spoil my pea crop last spring - but the goose-sized bandurria, or black faced ibis. Morning and evening the plastic horn honk of the bandurrias tells me when it is time for their ritual gathering. A band of 26 roosts across the road in the bosque and they announce their intentions loudly. http://salem-news.com/articles/july092010/black_-faced_ibis-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july092010/black_-faced_ibis-gp.php Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:20:00 PDT “The important thing to remember about the Deepwater Horizon disaster is that it is environmental, not economic.” Joe Mysak, Bloomberg News. Today, we have sad news of the first proof of oil migrating into the food chain. Harriet Perry of the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory’s Center for Fisheries Research and Development reports evidence of oil in post-larval blue crabs contaminated from oil drifting into the coastal marshes. http://salem-news.com/articles/june302010/gothic-birds-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june302010/gothic-birds-gp.php Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:24:00 PDT One really buff and sexually charged peacock near Bend, Oregon, has been causing a real fuss; the bird belongs to a local resident named Joy Graves. She hasn't been able to nab the extremely striking bird, and some gun toting residents decided they want to shoot it. http://salem-news.com/articles/june282010/peacock-threats.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282010/peacock-threats.php Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:09:00 PDT The Ardeola ibis is actually a type of heron, but unlike most herons, it can be found away from water. Commonly called the cattle egret, it is familiar from wildlife documentaries hitching a ride, and a lunch, on the back of a rhinoceros. Since a mere 150 years ago, it has expanded widely from its original range, and is now familiar to most of us. http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/egrets-argentina-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/egrets-argentina-gp.php Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:13:00 PDT Two of the world’s premier institutions promoting biodiversity conservation are entering into a partnership through a new cooperative agreement to prevent species extinctions and maintain ecosystems and habitats at key sites for endangered species. The Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal instrument adopted in 1992 to sustain the diversity of life on Earth. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/diversity-forces.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/diversity-forces.php Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:18:00 PDT The Peruvian government has announced the creation of several new conservation areas that will have significant ramifications in the ongoing efforts to protect habitat for endangered bird species in the country. The Peruvian Minister of the Environment, Antonia José Brack Egg, recently announced his government’s approval of three new, community-owned, private conservation areas encompassing 8,438 acres on community owned lands to protect Polylepis forest in the Vilcanota Mountains of southeastern Peru, near Cusco. http://salem-news.com/articles/may252010/birds-brazil.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may252010/birds-brazil.php Tue, 25 May 2010 16:56:00 PDT There is a restaurant on Calle San Martin in El Bolson named after Martin Shefflield. This Texan gained fame by becoming the first sheriff of El Bolson, for shooting the heels off of ladies shoes, and for inducing the famous scientist Dr. Clemente Onelli to help finance a search for live dinosaurs. Sheffield may have been nothing more than a self-serving pseudo-scientific adventurer, but his efforts have left a permanent mark on Patagonia. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202010/dino-birds-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202010/dino-birds-gp.php Thu, 20 May 2010 22:37:00 PDT