For every devoted birder, there is a bird that continues to elude sighting.
Tag: Birds
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To Stop an Extinction, He’s Flying High, Followed by His Beloved Birds
Using an ultralight aircraft, Johannes Fritz once taught endangered ibises a migration path over the Alps. Because of climate change, he is now showing them a much longer route to a winter’s refuge.
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Wildfires Threatened a Haven for Hawaii’s Endangered Birds
A conservationist and a neighbor defended the center, part of an effort to save the state’s native birds from extinction, until firefighters arrived.
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Is Social Justice for the Birds? Audubon Attempts an Answer.
A battle over the group namesake’s ties to slavery grew into a conflict over diversity, highlighting complications that have arisen in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
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Electrocution Isn’t the Main Thing Killing Birds Along Power Lines
A survey of power lines in four Western states found bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in most of the dead birds that were collected.