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Hello, I'm sending this email to let you know about the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and the need for additional participants to complete survey routes here in BC. Information on the

So many people in the old world still have that medieval attitude that wildlife is there only to be exploited. They can’t understand why anybody would be interested in it for other than that

Thanks Dan - Yes, I read that Egypt is the worst place to be a migratory bird with 140 million birds trapped during fall migration with hundreds of kilometers of nets, traps, snares and lime-coated

Not just Cyprus Derek. Many birders in North America don’t realize the industrial scale of the carnage that takes place all around the Mediterranean Basin every spring and fall. In Spain, Malta,

Not such a happy ending for songbirds in Cyprus though! What a truly despicable species we are - sheesh! :o(

CNN did a segment on the Yellow-billed Loon in the Bellagio Hotel fountain in Las Vegas. The bird was captured by the Nevada Department of Wildlife and released at an undisclosed location…

Ha! A friend from Powdermill in Pennsylvania sent me a photo of a Pied-billed Grebe that was brought to the banding station as it had landed in a grocery parking lot and couldn't get airborne again -

The Bellagio fountain is so huge, it’s more like a small lake. So it might have room to take off. Likely blown inland by all those huge storms dumping all that rain and snow on California. But what

Thanks for posting Dan - two bizarre stories indeed! The first is sad but the policy makers will still do nothing about mandating bird-friendly glass in buildings and the second is truly bizarre -

Just last week we were talking about bird collisions with buildings and now that very thing has claimed a celebrity. Flacco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl that escaped from a zoo and has been living free in

FYI, please follow up with the organizers if you have nay questions. Pamela Zevit RPBio | Biodiversity Conservation Planner [COS_Tag_pp_cmyk-200] T 604.590.7254 Check out how we are conserving

More insight from ongoing research at UBC. Feed: The Revelator Posted on: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 5:01 AM Author: Rebecca Heisman Subject: Is Our Food Waste Creating a Murder of Crows? Last

To add to this conversation, this paper describes some of the human activities on birds that don't necessarily result in direct mortality but still cause nonlethal impacts and possible eventual

Thanks Krista - And we still need to work on commercial buildings. I don’t know much about the Building Code here but I’m sure it sets minimum requirements for new construction, renovation, and

Thanks Derek - all great points, and thank you for all the great work that VARC is doing to encourage homeowners to treat windows. The specific references for the information below are: Avian

Thanks for posting this Dan and as you say "High time!" The estimates of fatalities from window strikes in Canada and the US are from the Government of

An article about how some architects are trying to incorporate bird-friendly designs into buildings. High time! The article estimates that as many as a billion migrating birds are killed every year in

Hello I thought the following research papers would be of interest to this group. Best, Greg Richmond Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of

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Group I see no reports for 2 weeks and wondering if it’s just lack of visitation or if it’s actually gone. Any negative reports? Keith Taylor