Sentences with phrase «bird conservancy»

Washington, DC About Blog American Bird Conservancy is a not - for - profit organization whose mission is to conserve native wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas.

Michael Fry, conservation advocacy director for the American Bird Conservancy, said that the project could «reduce prime offshore sea - duck foraging habitat» and that data suggest «that loons will likely abandon the area for years to come, and there may be significant impacts to endangered roseate terns, which breed in nearby Buzzards Bay and feed in Nantucket Sound.»

In a report the Seabird Program at the American Bird Conservancy, a US based conservation organization, says, this raises hopes that this once endangered bird might be gaining in numbers.

American Bird Conservancy feels the news is fairly dire.

«This is the development of practical, effective and affordable forest management options that sustain and create more bird - friendly habitats,» says Mike Parr, American Bird Conservancy vice president and chief conservation officer.

The American Bird Conservancy notes, «Thousands of miles of fishing lines, carrying hundreds of millions of hooks, are set by longliners throughout the world's oceans each year.

I look at the board members and see foresters, the American Bird Conservancy, the Pacific Forest Trust, and also every big lumber company in North America.

Cat predation is one of the reasons why one in three American bird species are in decline,» said Dr. George Fenwick, President of American Bird Conservancy, the only organization exclusively conserving birds throughout the Americas.

Mike joined the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) in 1996 and became President in 2017.

said American Bird Conservancy Vice President, Mike Parr.

Mongabay quotes American Bird Conservancy's president Mike Parr, who gives some important context: Parr says up to one billion birds are killed each year from hitting buildings, another billion get killed by kitty, 50 million die hitting communication towers, 15 million die from pesticide poisoning.

The impact of the BP oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today... The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with

American Bird Conservancy requests a voluntary membership fee for facilitation of the listserv, communications, meetings, and other benefits:

This has been a hallmark of American Bird Conservancy since 1998, when we helped Mexican partner Bosque Antiguo establish the 1,000 - acre El Carricito reserve to protect Thick - billed Parrots and Military Macaws in upland pine - oak forests of western Mexico.

(Washington, D.C., February 13, 2015) American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has filed a formal petition with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) calling for the agency to establish new regulations governing the impacts of wind energy projects on migratory birds.

Without the exceptional multi-year support of our partner American Bird Conservancy (ABC), this effort would have been impossible,» said Constantino Aucca Chutas, President of ECOAN.

«ABC and BCA support the development of renewable energy resources such as wind, but it has to be done responsibly,» said Michael Hutchins, national coordinator of the American Bird Conservancy's Bird Smart Wind Energy Campaign.

A 2015 study by American Bird Conservancy and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found bird - and bee - killing insecticides in nearly every food eaten by the nation's Senators, Representatives, and others who dine in the cafeterias of the United States Congress.

If you care about birds and want to contribute to conservation results, we believe you can make no better investment than by giving to American Bird Conservancy.

The American Bird Conservancy and other environmental groups are working with the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers the LEED system, to develop a pilot program giving architects credit for designing bird - friendly structures.

Based on these results, American Bird Conservancy and The Wildlife Society estimate that house cats kill far more than the previous estimate of a billion birds and other animals each year.

Getting architects to think about bird - friendly design can be difficult, said Christine Sheppard, bird collisions campaign manager for the American Bird Conservancy.

«Wind energy is not green if it is killing hundreds of thousands of birds,» said George Fenwick, president of the American Bird Conservancy, which supports properly sited wind farms.

(Washington, D.C., January 29, 2014) One of several wind turbine projects planned for the shores of Lake Erie, in one of the greatest bird migration corridors in the Western Hemisphere, has been halted following submission of a letter of intent to sue from American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO).

The vice president of the American Bird Conservancy, Mike Parr, said the tally was «an alarming and concerning finding.»

Contact: Jennifer Howard, American Bird Conservancy, Bob Rowley, Northwestern University, 847-491-4889, or Paul Sevilla, Northwestern University, 847-491-5875 (Evanston, IL, March 23, 2018) Working with the local community and experts from American Bird Conservancy, Northwestern University is using state - of - the - art solutions to keep birds from dying in collisions with glass walls and windows.

Ohio's Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) reject the assessment's claim that the planned Icebreaker wind energy facility would have little to no impact on birds and bats, citing the critical importance of Lake Erie to migratory birds such as the endangered Kirtland's Warbler.

This notice describes American Bird Conservancy's (ABC's) privacy policy as it relates to our websites: abcbirds.org, conservationbirding.org, and zeroextinction.org.

American Bird Conservancy was born in 1994, based on the need our founder, George Fenwick, saw for a fearless bird conservation group — one that wasn't afraid to take on difficult issues like free - roaming cats and pesticides.

Six years ago, the bird conservancy started a campaign, Cats Indoors, with the goal of keeping all cats indoors all the time.

«Because of these proposed backward - looking changes and new development plans for public lands in the region, the grouse is once again at risk of extinction and in need of stronger protection,» said Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy's Vice President of Policy.

The American Bird Conservancy and the National Audubon Society want them stopped.

Contacts: Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy, [phone]; Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, [phone]; Michael Saul, Center for Biological Diversity, [phone]; Rebecca Fischer, WildEarth Guardians, [phone]; Gustave Axelson, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, [phone]

Enjoy the day, from all of us at American Bird Conservancy!

The groups — the American Bird Conservancy and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance — told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a 15 - page letter released Wednesday that between 46 and 64 golden eagles would likely be killed every year by the spinning blades of 1,000 wind turbines planned by the Power Company of Wyoming.»

«(Washington, D.C., March 28, 2014) American Bird Conservancy, one of the nation's leading bird conservation organizations, is calling for a detailed reanalysis of a proposed wind power facility in Maryland that could prove to be the single most deadly project for bald eagles in the Americas.

(Evanston, IL, March 23, 2018) Working with the local community and experts from American Bird Conservancy, Northwestern University is using state - of - the - art solutions to keep birds from dying in collisions with glass walls and windows.

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) thanks Senator Whitehouse for cosponsoring the legislation and his leadership for migratory bird conservation.

Contact: Jennifer Howard, American Bird Conservancy, Bob Rowley, Northwestern University, 847-491-4889, or Paul Sevilla, Northwestern University, 847-491-5875

To help answer these questions, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is mounting a series of field expeditions with conservation allies in South America.

«Michael Hutchins of the American Bird Conservancy said he believes the five - year permit for the California wind farm is reasonable...»

A 2010 report by FWS and other federal agencies, in collaboration with such conservation groups as the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, found that global warming will have an increasingly devastating effect on migratory birds in all habitats.

The effort was led by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading U.S. bird conservation group; Fundación ProAves, one of the leading conservation groups in Colombia; and Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez, a Colombian organization that focuses on community, youth, and environmental projects.

(Washington, D.C., January 8, 2014) The Ohio National Guard facility at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton in northern Ohio, is the focus of possible legal action by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading national bird conservation organization, and Ohio's Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), which today announced the intention to sue the Ohio National Guard in connection with violations of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and other federal laws concerning the planned installation of a wind turbine on the shores of Lake Erie.

But as American Bird Conservancy has been pointing out for years, sometimes even the smallest changes can have enormous effects, from keeping your cat inside to making the right choices when you go to the grocery store.

Editor's Note: At American Bird Conservancy, we drink Birds & Beans coffee, and we recommend it for all of the reasons Scott states above.

«The higher you go, you start potentially impacting more migratory birds that otherwise would have otherwise flown over the tops of (smaller) turbines,» said Michael Parr, vice president and chief conservation officer for the American Bird Conservancy.

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An analysis by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) shows that more than 30,000 turbines overlap with federally protected bird habitat, including 24,000 in the migratory corridor of the whooping crane and 3,000 in breeding grounds of the endangered Greater Sage - Grouse.

Tip o» the hat to M. Kay Barton Robert Johns — March 5, 2015 — American Bird Conservancy American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to institute a new system of pre-construction risk assessment and bird and bat mortality data collection in connection with hundreds of thousands of -LSB-...]