News tagged with endangered bird

By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers

(AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boom in wood stork numbers sparks debate over endangered status

The wood stork, an ungainly duckling among the Everglades' elegant wading birds, has been breeding in numbers unseen in decades.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Group says 3 more birds close to extinction

(AP) -- An Ethiopian lark, a Galapagos finch and a spectacularly colored hummingbird only recently discovered in Colombia have been added to the list of the world's most threatened species, an environmental group said Thursday. ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

$14M effort announced to save rare Hawaiian bird

(AP) -- Federal wildlife officials say they plan to spend more than $14 million to prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian crow, one of the rarest forest birds in the world.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bermuda says rare national bird born on reserve

(AP) -- A fuzzy fledgling of Bermuda's national bird, spotted on a secluded offshore sanctuary this week, may help bring the rare creature back from the brink of extinction.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: Nearly all native birds in Hawaii in peril

(AP) -- Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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