Sentences with phrase «endangered birds by»

Drawings and paintings of backyard and endangered birds by the young artist and environmentalist Olivia Bouler.

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The goal of Birds to Watch is to protect declining bird species in Massachusetts before they become endangered by:

The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

Once a highly abundant bird, today the Oriental white - backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is listed as critically endangered by BirdLife International.

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

Whooping cranes are protected by two federal laws: the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

This September, after years of mulling over the decline — and spurred forward by litigation — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed listing the bird as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Thus, gene drive could be used to reduce malaria transmission in humans — or in endangered birds (see image, above)-- by making the mosquito vectors incapable of spreading the malaria parasite or even eliminating the insects altogether.

Examples: Hawaiian honeycreepers infested with feather lice, birds in Puerto Rico afflicted by Philornis flies and the endangered Florida scrub jay parasitized by fleas.

Knutie and Clayton say their method might help the endangered mangrove finches, with only 60 cotton dispensers needed to cover the less than half a square mile inhabited by the birds on Isabela Island.

A team led by University of California, Santa Barbara plant ecologist Shelley Crausbay is studying high - elevation cloud forests that provide habitat for a number of rare birds, most of which are endangered.

Steve: The first part of the book, before you get to the case - by - case analysis of the threatened and endangered birds, the first part of the book is just like a traditional book, you can sit there and read it and it has various sections and one of them talks about birds, as you know, literally canaries in coal mines and the rest of the bird species out there as our canaries in the ecological coal mine that we are in.

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

President Barack Obama's administration is under court order to decide by 30 September how to protect the bird: declare it an endangered species — the nuclear option in conservation — or opt for the less onerous conservation strategies that officials are testing on its fellow rangeland bird, the lesser prairie chicken.

Results from a study of endangered New Zealand hihi birds (Notiomystis cincta), published in Evolutionary Applications, showed that bachelor males who don't hold breeding territories, known as «floaters», could help maintain genetic diversity and decrease the likelihood of inbreeding by sneakily fathering chicks.

After years of inaction and prompted by a 2011 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bird for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the BLM initiated sage grouse protection planning.

Globally, 1,223 species of birds, or about 12 percent of the total of 9,998 extant described bird species, were deemed endangered or threatened with extinction by IUCN's 2009 Red List.

An earlier policy to trap, neuter / spay and release feral cats to avoid euthanization was struck down in court by a group that sued because they felt the policy would endanger the city's bird population.

Winter — and by extension, Marra and his colleagues — are unambiguous on this point: TNR is a clear violation of both the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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The Injunction The original complaint — filed by the Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy — was brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, with the plaintiffs arguing, for instance, that TNR «can cause significant adverse environmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution problems.»

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

Coastal development has contributed to the bird's decline, and it's considered threatened by the federal government and endangered by the state of New York.

Framed by breathtaking views of Kaua'i's north shore, Hawaii's endangered birds are seen nesting in the cliffs, including the Hawaiian Gallinule, red - footed boobies, tropicbirds, albatrosses and frigate birds.

(9) Taking any marine mammal, sea turtle, or seabird within or above the Sanctuary, except as authorized by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as amended, (MMPA), 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq., Endangered Species Act, as amended, (ESA), 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq., Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as amended, (MBTA), 16 U.S.C. 703 et seq., or any regulation, as amended, promulgated under the MMPA, ESA, or MBTA.

Lamanai's wide variety of habitats in a small area promotes species diversity, as seen by its healthy populations of several endangered animals and nearly 400 species of birds.

Nusa Penida is also the bird sanctuary for the endangered and endemic Bali Starling, initiated and overseen by the Friends of the National Park Foundation (FNPF).

Belize is home to hundreds of endangered animals, birds, and plants that thrive on the reef, all of which could be endangered by drilling practices and potential oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010 that took place in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.

They're plumes gathered by Hope Sandrow of Southampton from rare Paduan birds that live and lay their eggs freely in her ongoing project «Open Air Studio,» a habitat this conceptual artist created to protect an endangered species.

I do think in the future I will also bring up raptors to keep it in perspective as in «no environmental group worries about sheer number of birds killed» followed by a comparison to put raw numbers into perspective «many do worry about poorly sited wind generators killing endangered birds, especially raptors» tell the story of Altamont farm and the proposed Exxon farm which was quite properly stopped.

The latest IUCN reports are very depressing in this regard — as I said yesterday, 10 - 40 % of well known taxa (fish, birds, mammals, reptiles etc.) are endangered, primarily by human activities.

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 - GroBird 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 - Grobird habitat, including 24,000 in the migratory corridor of the whooping crane and 3,000 in breeding grounds of the endangered Greater Sage - Grouse.

(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 EBird 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 Ebird 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 EBird 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.

Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).

Originally posted on rhymeafterrhyme: Tens of thousands of birds, many of them endangered species, are being killed by wind turbines every year and as we build more even more will be killed.

A 2002 study in Spain, home of Don Quixote, estimated that 11,200 birds of prey, some of them endangered species, are killed every year by wind turbines and power lines.

Other problems with the LBWEG as perceived by HMANA include its failure to require that developers of industrial wind energy projects avoid known bird migration pathways and daily movement flyways, avoid features of the landscape known to attract raptors (such as ridge lines and coastlines), avoid areas formally designated as Important Bird Areas and avoid documented locations of any species protected under the federal Endangered Species bird migration pathways and daily movement flyways, avoid features of the landscape known to attract raptors (such as ridge lines and coastlines), avoid areas formally designated as Important Bird Areas and avoid documented locations of any species protected under the federal Endangered Species Bird Areas and avoid documented locations of any species protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.

According to the Audubon analysis, which is currently undergoing peer review for journal publication, more than half of North America's bird species will be «climate - threatened» or «climate - endangered» by the end of the century — under a range of future emissions scenarios.

Already an endangered species, this bird of old - growth forests is projected to lose 98 percent of its current winter range by 2080, according to Audubon's climate models.

For example, recent work suggests that up to 41 percent of bird species, 66 percent of amphibian species, and between 61 percent and 100 percent of corals that are not now considered threatened with extinction will become threatened due to climate change sometime between now and 2100 (Foden et al., 2013; Ricke et al., 2013), and that in Africa, 10 - 40 percent of mammal species now considered not to be at risk of extinction will move into the critically endangered or extinct categories by 2080, possibly as early as 2050 (Thuiller et al., 2006).

Based on the operation of a mere 22,000 turbines, FWS estimated that at least 440,000 birds — including threatened and endangered species — were being killed per year by wind turbines in 2009.

More about birds around the world: Rare Birds Raise Secret Brood in Birmingham Map of Bird Habitats Threatened by BP Oil Spill Bird Protection Clashes with Bride Prospects in India 17 % of North American Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory birds around the world: Rare Birds Raise Secret Brood in Birmingham Map of Bird Habitats Threatened by BP Oil Spill Bird Protection Clashes with Bride Prospects in India 17 % of North American Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds Raise Secret Brood in Birmingham Map of Bird Habitats Threatened by BP Oil Spill Bird Protection Clashes with Bride Prospects in India 17 % of North American Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory BirdsBirds

The latest battle ground in the debate is opening up in Cape Hatteras National Park in North Carolina, where Senator Hagan (D - NC) joined U.S. Senator Burr (R - NC) in a legislative move to withdraw national park protections for baby birds and sea turtles endangered by off - road vehicles.

The bird had been reclassified in 1995 from endangered to threatened; the Interior Department made the recovery official today by striking off the eagle from the list of threatened species under the species - protection law.Nearly 10,000 bald eagles now soar the skies above the contiguous 48 states, compared with a documented 417 in 1963, when the bird was on the brink of extinction everywhere except in Alaska and Canada.

By installing them on the rooftops of places like universities and town halls, it is hoped that endangered species of birds and bugs will be saved.

The sanctuary states, «Today, Pandemonium is one of the largest bird sanctuaries in the US, and we are among the few groups addressing the issue of birds disappearing from the wild and from aviculture by conservation breeding of endangered species.

These endangered scavengers are the largest birds in North America, but by 1982, there were only 23 left.

This week Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), declined to place the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species list, stating that unprecedented cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had sufficiently increased the bird's population and protected its habitat.

Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), declined to place the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species list, stating that unprecedented cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had sufficiently increased the bird's population and protected its habitat.

This week Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, declined to place a sub-population of the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species, stating that cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had increased the bird's population.