A dead hippo attracks all kind of birds. This video shows the carnivore wild in its purest form. And there is this crocodile…
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Oct 06 2012
The search for the Yelkouan Petrel. Please HELP
Help science to study and protect the vulnerable. Contribute your data to the cause. Graduate student seeks data on precise breeding islands of Yelkouan Shearwaters and their threats on those islands: I am looking for survey or observation years from islands (if available) where breeding is occurring or occurred in the past (if it is …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 10 Kittlitz’s Murrelet
Text by Audubon Introduction Kittlitz’s Murrelet is a small seabird found in the coastal regions of Alaska, where it feeds on fish and macro-zooplankton in areas where glaciers meet saltwater. It nests a few miles inland in the mountains and on cliff faces. Over recent decades, its local populations are estimated to have undergone precipitous …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 9 The Golden-cheeked Warbler
Text by Audubon Introduction The Golden-cheeked Warbler is a migratory songbird that breeds only in Ashe juniper woodlands. Between 1960 and 1980, the area of this habitat was reduced by development pressures in central Texas by about a quarter. In addition, anticipation that the warbler would be federally listed as an endangered species prompted landowners …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 8 The Ashy Storm-Petrel
Text by Audubon Introduction The Ashy Storm-Petrel is a seabird that nests in small rock cavities on islands off the coast of California. From 50 to 70 percent of the breeding population is located on Southeast Farallon Island in the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge and on California’s Channel Islands. With its already small population having …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 7 The Florida Scrub-Jay
Text by Audubon Introduction The Florida Scrub-Jay lives only in Florida, in rare areas of oak scrub that must be renewed periodically by lightning-ignited fires. Seemingly inexorable development in the state has fragmented much of the scrub-jay’s habitat, minimizing the occurrence of fire. Unburnt, the oak scrub tends to become overgrown and evolve into sand …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 6 The Piping Plover
Text by Audubon Introduction The Piping Plover is a small shorebird that nests on beaches and sandflats along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes, and large rivers and lakes in the Great Plains on the United States and Canada. Piping Plover nests are inconspicuous in the sand, and newly hatched chicks look like small sand-colored …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 5 Kirtland’s Warbler
Text by Audubon Introduction Kirtland’s Warbler is a small – they weigh only half-ounce each – migratory songbird that nests exclusively under trees in young jack pine forests in Michigan and sometimes Wisconsin and Ontario. Historically, this habitat is renewed when naturally occurring fires renew forests, with the heat from the fire forcing open the …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 4 The Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Text by Audubon. Introduction The Gunnison Sage-Grouse, a chicken-sized ground bird, depends on sagebrush habitat for cover throughout the year and feeds exclusively on sagebrush during the winter. During the spring, summer, and fall, the grouse also browses on other plants and insects. Once native to New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, Gunnison Sage-Grouse …
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Mar 03 2012
North America’s most endangered birds Top 10: 3 The Whooping Crane
Text by Audubon Introduction The poignant irony of human engagement with endangered birds is captured in the image of a delicate open-cockpit ultralight aircraft that looks like one of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines guiding a flock of large, elegant white-andblack Whooping Cranes on their annual migration. Whooping Cranes once bred easily in the central …
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