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July 1, 2009, Vol.11

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Events

10th China Ornithology Symposium will be held in in Harbin on August 6th-12th,2009. (China Ornithological Society)or(birder China)

Fifth Biennial Australasian Ornithological Conference, Armidale, NSW, 29 November-4 December, 2009. Students are encouraged to attend. They are offered an "early bird" registration at $AU150.00 by 1 September. (Australasian Ornithological Society)

Wild Things exhibition. (more)

The Ornithological Society of New Zealand regional 'What's on?'(more)

National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count

British Bird Watching Fair

American Birding Association’s Events

British Ornithologists’s Union Conferences

Birdlife International

International Ornithological Congress, Brazil, 2010. (more)

Since 1976, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has organized Birds in Art annually. (more)

Opinion, Columns & Articles

Rum and treacle: how to attract moths to your garden.(more)

Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy? (more)

Australian birds: fire & burning regimes. (more)

Birdwatch.(more)

The wandering star: Conservationist Stanley Johnson goes in search of the albatross.(more)

xeno-canto Australasia.(more)

Aves—a taxonomy in flux.(more)

The environment is too important to be left to the green movement.(more)

Observer: Birdwatch.(more)

All the leaves are brown: green fatique.(more)

Vulture World.(more)

Cool Green Science: the conservation blog of the Nature Conservancy. (more)

The terrible allure of twitching.(more)

The loneliness of the Chinese birdwatcher.(more)

One world, many minds: intelligence in the animal kingdom.(more)

Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'.(more)

A little bird told me...(more)

How our economy is killing the Earth.(more)

Best birding: From rainforests to sewage works.(more)

Free download: Scientific American Earth 3.(more)

Video of dolphins creating and playing with bubble rings.(more)

Medicine for a feverish planet: kill or cure? James Lovelock.(more)

10 Funniest green viral videos. (more)

Wild Sanctuary: natural sound archive.(more)

How Darwin won the evolution race.(more)

A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate.(more)

I See Doomed People. The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations. (more)

BirdLife struggling to survive on crumbs.(more)

Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong.(more)

The Age of Stupid: Such are the words used to describe the age in which we currently live, wasting resources and trashing our planet like there is no tomorrow. Well, there is a tomorrow, and a bunch of film makers in the UK have put together a film by the same name.(more)(more)

Birdbrain The woman behind the world’s chattiest parrots. (more)

Animated map brings global climate crisis to life. (more)

The seven myths of energy independence. (more)

Did your shopping list kill a songbird? (more)

The Tree Corporation Of Australia.(more)

Why do people steal birds' eggs? (more)

Suzuki sets real bottom line at Commonwealth Lecture.(more)

Rare birds yearbook.(more)

“Green Economics”: turning mainstream thinking on its head.(more)

Gondwana Link. (more)

“Life: a gene-centric view”.(more)

Life: what a concept!(more)

Conservation marketers choose land over beast.(more)

The Biggest Twitch. (more)

How to impress a female bowerbird.(more)

It’s time to put greens in their place.(more)

A Delightful Children’s Story - Shoba and the Sarus Crane.(more)

The great global warming swindle. Scientists will continue to monitor the global climate and the factors which influence it. Those who promote fringe scientific views but ignore the weight of evidence are playing a dangerous game. They run the risk of diverting attention from what we can do to ensure the world’s population has the best possible future.[(more)

Most terrifying video you’ll ever see?(more)

Songs and sojourns of the season.(more)

Chill Out.(more)

‘Feel Good’ vs. ‘Do Good’ on Climate.(more)

BirdLife International maintains its own taxonomic checklist of the world’s bird species.(more)

Global warming: how do scientists know they’re not wrong?(more)

Bill Moyers talks about the future of our planet with noted entomologist and father of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson.(video)

The 0.0174069% of Earth we call home is glorious. The trick is keeping it that way.(more)

Birds of a feather.(more)

An earth without people.(more)

E.O. Wilson: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life.(more)

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed.(more)

The Encyclopedia of Life. (more)

Birds of the World: Recommended English Names.(more)

In praise of... garden birdwatching.(more)

Why has mankind always loved to draw animals? David Attenborough explains the fascination.(more)

The GeesePeace programs emphasize effective long-term solutions to wildlife conflicts, while building communities by promoting cooperative and humane solutions to wildlife conflicts. (more)

“Is God Green?” (more)

Edward O Wilson, the distinguished evolutionary biologist has just made headlines across America following the publication of his book, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. In it, he asks America’s religious right to join forces with science to save the planet. ‘Pastor, we need your help,’ he writes. ‘The Creation — living Nature — is in deep trouble.’ The message is simple: let us bury our differences to save the world.(more)

End of the Wild: The extinction crisis is over. We lost.(more)

The Mystery of the Bradshaw Paintings; According to legend, they were made by birds. It was said that these birds pecked the rocks until their beaks bled, and then created these fine paintings by using a tail feather and their own blood.(more)

“Let’s be clear: This is not evolution versus God,” writes David Quammen in “The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution.” “The existence of God — any sort of god, personal or abstract, immanent or distant — is not what Darwin’s evolutionary theory challenges. What it challenges is the supposed godliness of Man — the conviction that we above all other life forms are spiritually elevated, divinely favored, possessed of an immaterial and immortal essence, such that we have special prospects for eternity, special status in the expectations of God, special rights and responsibilities on Earth.” Quammen does not flinch from “the horrible challenge” implied by Darwin’s idea: “In plain language, a soul or no soul? An afterlife or not? Are humans spiritually immortal in a way that chickens or cows are not, or just another form of temporarily animated meat?”

Peacock’s tail fans our flames. Can Darwinism explain the birth and extinction of art movements, or the enduring appeal of Jane Austen?(more)

James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years.(more)

Deep Ecology. (more)

Life on Earth may have driven the evolution of the planet itself.(more)

My name is Lynn and I’m a birdwatcher ... It was the hobby that dared not speak its name.(more)

Life the remake.(more)

Evolution is a law that is as well substantiated as any other natural law, whether the law of gravity, the laws of motion or Avogadro’s law. Evolution is a fact, disputed only by those who choose to ignore the evidence, put their common sense on hold and believe instead that unchanging knowledge and wisdom can be reached only by revelation.(more)

Leading botanist Peter Raven calculates that species crucial to the survival of the human race are in steep decline.(more)

An atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet.(more)

The life cycle of a cell is amazing. The cell builds a copy of itself. Such a capacity is basic in biology but completely absent from physics. Stuart Kauffman explains... more).

That damn bird! Parrots, as we all know, can “parrot” human speech, but cannot grasp syntax and meaning. Well, anyway, that’s what we thought we knew. (more).

In our indifference to the pain of animals, says J.M. Coetzee, we are like the “Germans who went about their ordinary lives in the shadow of Treblinka”. (more)

World Birds

OSNZ Arctic wader colour–banding project

Australasian Waders Study Group

Shorebird Education Australia

Credo

A Year on the Wing of the Magnificent Migratory Eastern Curlew

Tree of Life

Ibis the international journal of avian science, published on behalf of the British Ornithologists’ Union.

Obituaries

Bob Scott:
Ornithologist and conservationist who helped spread the joys of birdwatching

Allen Keast, 1922-2009
Nature-loving scientist had a passion for birds

Geoff Park
Geoff Park( - ) was an ecologist and research scientist. During a 1986 fellowship at the Stout Research Centre he began researching his acclaimed ecological history of New Zealand, Nga Uruora (1995).
“We still have a chance. The last emblems of the verdant country that drew our first comers ashore must lead us toward a concept of survival for ourselves: that we must live with the rest of nature or die with the rest of nature.”

Geoff Moon
Geoff Moon was a world-renowned wildlife photographer specialising in ornithology.
Geoff was a retired veterinary surgeon and was awarded the OBE in 1994.

Alex the African Grey.
Science’s best known parrot died on September 6th,
aged 31.

Vincent Serventy,
1916-2007
His last campaign was for a bill of rights for the environment, with 10 Green Commandments.

Geoffrey Buckland Orbell, MBE, 1908-2007

Rod Donald:
1957 - 2005

Kevin Smith:
1954 - 2005

John Harold Ostrom:
1928-2005

Ernest Mayr:
July 5, 1904 - February 3, 2005

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds - Phoebe Snetsinger "Birding is like a religion. Many religious people seek to transcend the everyday by praying or meditating; birders seek transcendence by spending time in nature." - Olivia Gentile

Listen to Tui by Eileen Duggan read by Narena Olliver

Monthly Quiz: — July

Question — Name NZ's endemic gull.

There will be 4 New Zealand Bird bird song CDs given every month for a correct answer.

Email name and postal address to:
narena @nzbirds.com

Quiz results: — June

Question: The 'blight bird' was a name for what common native species?

Answer: Tauhou, the silver-eye.

Winners:
Corey Husic, Kunkletown, PA,USA.
Anli Dogger, Cambridge.
Mel Mitchell, Highet, Vic., Australia.
Eve Williams, Wellington.

NZ, Australian & Pacific News

'Economy before environment' - Carter.(more)

Garden bird survey. (more)

Bittern blog. (more)

Bittern survey.(more)

Storms drive seabirds inland. (more)

Biodiversity funds for whio.(more)

Island restoration programme underway. (more)

Record season for breeding endangered birds.(more)

More Kiwis get chance to see Kakapo.(more)

Parrots' return to Raoul Island 'a conservation first'. (more)

BirdLife grant helps endangered shorebird.(more)

Authorities defend Lord Howe chemical dumping.(more)

On a wing and a prayer. (more)

Rivers turning into privatised drains. (more)

Hedgehog the enemy.(more)

Insecticide spray blamed for new Henderson bird deaths.(more)

Picton man fined $1000 for capturing weka in trap. (more)

Cheeky Kea steals tourist's passport. (more)

Birds die in unsecured fishing net. (more)

Reforestation milestone for black robin/biodiversity hotspot.(more)

Indian mynah bird next to face Australian cull.(more)

Robin release begins restoration of Adele Island biodiversity. (more)

Auckland city wildlife sanctuary a step closer. (more)

Bushfire inquiry stirs fierce debate (more)

Birds now eating cane toads, researcher finds.(more)

Parrot 'putting hundreds of jobs at risk'. (more)

Weka killed by roaming dogs on Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf. (more)

Warming impacts Antarctic food chain.(more)

Ornithologists uncover the secrets of godwits in North Korea. (more)

Snake snacks on cockatoo.(more)

Hundreds of miles of ice drop from Antarctic shelf.(more)

Grass greener for takahe.(more)

Authorities crack egg smuggling racket.(more)

Mutton bird numbers dive in NZ.(more)

Conservation status of New Zealand birds reviewed. (more)

MP takes tough line to save birds, dolphins.(more)

Conservation boost for Tahiti Monarch.(more)

Earth Day Messages. (more)

DOC restoration projects reach the top.(more)

Te Urewera Mainland Island near Opotiki has been recognised as one of the top 25 ecological restoration sites in Australia and New Zealand.(more)

Mana Island and ZEALANDIA - Karori Sanctuary voted top restoration sites. (more)

Many NZ bird species at risk.(more)

Keeping kakapo alive.(more)

Three new birds on the critical list. (more)

Hillary Clinton urges tougher controls on South Pole tourists.(more)

Possum pill breakthrough. (more)

Kakapo chicks move to Invercargill.(more)

Eco warrior on voyage to 'plastic soup' of Pacific.(more)

Robin's return to Moehau.(more)

Teams train toutouwai for transfer. (more)

Rotorua lakes may get floating wetlands.(more)

Wilkins Ice Shelf splits from Antarctica.(more)

One million mutton birds killed off Tasmania. (more)

The feather atlas.(more)

Raoul Island diary January 2009.(more)

Kakapo ranger diaries.(more)

Buller's birds still charm. (more)

Why redhead finches have more sons. (more)

Nine endangered little spotted kiwi released on to an island sanctuary in the Hauraki Gulf. (more)

Eruptions hit bird island. (more)

Gay ducks derail repopulation plan.(more)

Petrel watch: epic flight of a sea bird.(more)

Pateke/brown teal return to Fiordland.(more)

Pelicans rescued from oil spill.(more)

Wildlife die as oil slick leaves explosive pollution. (more)

Kitesurfers blamed for scaring migratory birds from sanctuary in New Zealand.(more)

Kakariki return to mainland Auckland. (more)

Kakapo population breaks 100 mark.(more)

Conservationists deciding which species to survive.(more)

Millions of animals died in fires: Wildlife Victoria.(more)

Ferrets cause havoc in the Tongariro Forest kiwi sanctuary. (more)

Lake Eyre filling up for the first time in 10 years.(more)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's green pledge was all hot air. (more)

Call for speed bumps after penguin 'flatmate' run over.(more)

Ferrets cause havoc in the Tongariro Forest kiwi sanctuary.(more)

Feathered friends with a side of croc.(more)

NZ's smallest bird gets new island home.(more)

The State Of Australia's Birds.(more)

Shoppers quiz curious case of dead sparrows.(more)

Theories fly over dead bird mystery. (more)

Real Climate: bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia. (more)

Kakapo breeding season update.(more)

Murdering moggy now bird-free.(more)

New generation electric car trial launched. (more)

Winds rough on little birds.(more)

Christchurch farewells the godwits. (more)

Animals the forgotten victims of Australian fires.(more)

Bulldozing wetland costs farmer $400,000.(more)

Australia's bushfires: the blame game. (more)

Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic. (more)

Documentary opposes use of 1080 poison. (more)

Kakapo back to nest after 21 years. (more)

Seabird, Not Seen For 80 Years, Photographed off Papua New Guinea.(more)

Akaroa marine reserve a step closer.(more)

Muttonbirding rights face threat. (more)

Endangered species claim halts logging. (more)

Waituna Wetland in Southland under threat from industrial dairy.(more)

Cheeky chick comes to town. (more)

The birds on Tiritiri Matangi Island haven't seen a rat in 15 years. (more)

Emperor penguin 'marching to extinction by end of the century'. (more)

Southern endangered birds back on the lake. (more)

Waiting game for mating game. (more)

Runway-loving birds are risk to planes in Antarctica. (more)

Little blue penguin influx along BOP coastline.(more)

Double delight for Kiwi sanctuary.(more)

Heatwave 'kills hundreds' of birds in WA.(more)

Dead parrots 'falling from trees'. (more)

Eagle bones found (more)

Moa poo shows birds ate tiny herbs.(more)

Hunt for (godwit?) attacker. (more)

The establishment of a colony of Hutton's Shearwaters on the Kaikoura Peninsula has been hailed as a conservation success. (more)

Glutton parrots too full to escape roadside death.(more)

Park aims to attract native birds to city life. (more)

Forest bounty will put birds at risk. (more)

Shot hunter felt birds kept watch. (more)

Feathered stud of the forest turns 21.(more)

Stephen Fry in Wellington for the birds.(more)

Barrier Reef coral growth 'will stop'.(more)

Conservation park gets green light.(more)

DoC warns on kiwi risks.(more)

False alarm in bird hunt. (more)

Flowering leads to more stoats, fewer kiwi. (more)

Dogs suspected of killing 70 kiwi in two weeks. (more)

Protests heat up over Australia's climate plan. (more)

Protected birds lose fear, study suggests.(more)

Matakana dotterel nesting throughout the Bay. (more)

Convalescing kiwi catches train to capital.(more)

Stephen Fry and the giant parrot. (more)

Gentle Nui's boost to kiwi health.(more)

Weka's remarkable love quest.(more)

Morepork chicks could have been a meal for the first passing rat, but tight predator control in a bush block in Silverstream has given them a fighting chance.(more)

Search for the South Island kokako. (more)

Wellington's Karori Sanctuary is renaming itself Zealandia in a $25,000 rebranding exercise that will see its green hues ditched for an earthy orange. (more)

'Pirates of compassion' prepare to take on Japanese whaling fleet. (more)

Tui thriving in Wellington.(more)

Rescue chick set to be wild heartbreaker. (more)

Air force to keep tabs on Japanese whalers. (more)

NZ red faced over climate change. (more)

Lovebirds busy keeping species alive. (more)

Ancient kakapo dies despite three-hour op.(more)

New, now extinct, penguin found in New Zealand.(more)

Invasion of Indian crows sparks alert. (more)

Environmental groups are horrified at a "radical" turn in the National government's climate-change policy just a week after the election.(more)

Clever Kiwi idea saves birds.(more)

Puppy power is penguins' saviour. (more)

Scenes from Antarctica. (more)

Forest and Bird lodge destroyed in fire.(more)

Birdman cleared to feed again. (more)

Kakapo: Bird of the Year.(more)

Future of Gouldian finch remains in doubt.(more)

Small bird leaves scientists gobsmacked. (more)

NZ ranked among big polluters.(more)

Australia youths maul flamingo.(more)

Kokako join Doubtful Sound's dawn chorus.(more)

Protected bird shot by boy at school camp.(more)

Kerikeri students' award-winning invention keeps seabirds at bay. (more)

A kakapo has slowly been nursed back to health at Auckland Zoo after his body weight nearly halved from lead poisoning.(more)

Kakapo perfume could get them breeding.(more)

Endangered parrot wins logging reprieve.(more)

Gunsights on pigeons.(more)

Slow death of a dirty brown river.(more)

Two dead kiwi found in Trounson Park. (more)

New Zealand quail may not be as extinct as thought.(more)

There have been "sickening" attacks on endangered birds on South Australia's west coast.(more)

Rats trapped in Karori Sanctuary. (more)

Penguins feel heat as Antarctic warms.(more)

Mini forest rejuvenates Puhinui Stream.(more)

Returned Lorikeets breed on Atiu. (more)

Condor programme brings birds back from edge.(more)

Vote: Bird of the Year. (more)

What a hoot! Owl recovers after long-haul flight. (more)

Ebird: 2008 shining cuckoo arrival records.(more)

Kiwis lay pleasant surprise for DoC.(more)

Wet winter cancels kokako's big move. (more)

Pacific home to one-quarter of birds facing extinction. (more)

Whale of a plan to challenge Japan.(more)

A Whitianga matriarch has provided tourists with the opportunity to buy native trees in the area to offset their carbon footprints. (more)

Thousands of Australia's koalas and other wildlife felled by land-clearing.(more)

A passion for birds earned a Year 10 student top prize in the Oliphant Science Awards last night. (more)

Rare penguin hits the beach.(more)

Destructive parrots go on vandalising spree.(more)

Bush administration announced that it is considering protecting some 891,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean waters as marine sanctuaries. (more)

NZ city evicts 'gang birds'.(more)

New Zealand dotterel and their minders. (more)

Search continues for Fiji Petrel… (more)

Wild south a protected coast. (more)

A myna issue.(more)

The early bird catches the lights. (more)

Pooping birds pressured from roosts.(more)

Thousands rally to mark 'death' of Australian river.(more)

Put roo on the menu or rue the day.(more)

Live birds found in airline bags. (more)

Il faut cultiver notre jardin - Voltaire

Overseas News

Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow.more)

Desperate bid to save finches that changed the world.(more)

Aves Argentinas launches a national fund for IBA conservation. (more)

Obama's US climate change bill passes key Congress vote.(more)

Black grouse initiative takes off.(more)

Falcons poisoned in nesting site. (more)

Rare goshawk chicks start to fly.(more)

Bid to reunite Australian swans. (more)

House renovations, loft conversions and fewer Jersey cows are being blamed for a decline in swallow numbers.(more)

Elusive birds like stately homes.(more)

Massive imbalances in global fertilizer use.(more)

Rat free after 229 years.(more)

Major drop in migrating swifts prompts bird watch call.(more)

Albatross chick's storm warning about plastic. (more)

Golden eagle found by walkers in Scottish Highlands was poisoned.(more)

In the desert, a natural lake is drying up. (more)

Imagine a world without fish.(more)

Rum and treacle: how to attract moths to your garden (to feed the birds. (more)

After 200 years, ospreys return to Northumberland. (more)

New York declares war on geese to prevent airport bird strikes.(more)

Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands – often paying the ultimate price. (more)

China makes renewable power play to be world's first green superpower.(more)

Can animals live in high-rise blocks?(more)

Afghans issue first wildlife list. (more)

Hummingbirds 'faster than jets'.(more)

Ospreys return to Northumberland.(more)

Bird swallows eel after struggle. (more)

Scots urged to count the wildlife in their gardens to establish how important the areas are for breeding birds and summer migrants. (more)

Nigeria: country loses 350,000 hectares annually to deforestation. (more)

Brazilian beef industry blamed for Amazon deforestation.(more)

Penguin poop monitored from space.(more)

Death of 10,000 songbirds fuels feud over U.S. TV, phone towers.(more)

What is killing Chile's coastal wildlife?(more)

Wiping out the world's mass migrations.(more)

White roofs and 'cool' cars - Obama's US energy secretary gives Prince Charles tips on tackling climate change.(more)

Concentrated solar power could generate 'quarter of world's energy'(more)

Avian warriors combat pest birds.(more)

Cuckoo's call becomes rarer in UK. (more)

Owls replace pesticides in Israel.(more)

Is China really going green? (more)

Wader populations declining faster than ever.(more)

In Chile, the birds are dying, and no one knows why.(more)

Trans-boundary Rainforest Park will be a symbol of peace and stability. (more)

Bizarre maleo bird given private Indonesian beach.(more)

Student activists try to save wildlife on China's menu.(more)

Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare birds.(more)

Penguin kidnaps mortal enemy.(more)

Rare crane in first Uganda sighting.(more)

More bird species facing extinction: IUCN(more)

The swallow that flew to South Africa - and into the record books.(more)

Birds in Qinhuangdao draw a number of bird-observers. (more)

Rare bird flies back from the dead.(more)

Barack Obama's $1.8bn vision of greener biofuel. (more)

Meet the brains of the animal world.(more)

Seabirds are dying in large numbers yet again.(more)

Four Chinese farmers jailed for killing rare white swans. (more)

Barack Obama's 100 days: Green measures.(more)

Robot animals snare U.S. poachers. (more)

Farmers 'key to halting bird decline'.(more)

No tuna, no salmon. No oysters, no skate. No cod and chips. (more)

NASA shows Apollo 8 image for Earth Day. (more)

Interview: James Lovelock on how to save Gaia. (more)

Lambs picked for sea eagle predator study.(more)

Bird with cigarette 'caused fire'. (more)

Afghans get first national park.(more)

EU acts to save 'hungry vultures'. (more)

RSPB call to curb seabird slaughter in Greenland.(more)

JFK shares space with wetlands — and birds.(more)

Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind. (more)

Predators starve as we plunder oceans.(more)

Tiny warbler at risk from longer African migration.(more)

Flying mouse-traps clean up fields. (more)

Shahu Nature Reserve, heaven of birds.(more)

Biofools.(more)

Commuters to photograph birds. (more)

The survival of two of the world's rarest birds could be improved with the creation of reserves in Syria.(more)

Shooting parties take flight as recession hits the big guns. "(more)

Birds, bins, bullets. (more)

Why the Ecologist has gone online. (more)

Antique giant bird's egg on sale. (more)

Prisoners do bit for jail birds.(more)

Plants buy Earth more time as CO2 makes them grow.(more)

Oil sands could threaten millions of migratory birds. (more)

China pays deer price for Condor protection.(more)

Armies around the world go green to save fuel – and lives.(more)

Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20's weasel words.(more)

How legal protection for Europe's birds moved from hope to reality. (more)

Why biofuels are the rainforest's worst enemy. (more)

The San Dieguito Wetland Restoration Project is attracting a larger number of migratory and local birds than expected just months after being opened to ocean tides. (more)

State of the birds. (more)

China hails U.S. climate promises. (more)

Pigeons fly cell phones into Brazilian prison. (more)

Earth population 'exceeds limits'. (more)

Hundreds of penguins found dead. (more)

US fisheries act to protect Arctic and Albatrosses. (more)

RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch: 'We have had some mild winters and long-tailed tits rely on insects'.(more)

James Lovelock attacks climate change minister's 'preaching' on wind power.(more)

Huge man-made algae swarm devoured--bad for climate?(more)

Plans to help halt puffin decline.(more)

The number of sparrows and starlings in London's gardens is continuing to fall.(more)

Antique giant bird's egg on sale.(more)

Rare birds confiscated in Russia.(more)

The sound of silence: The Cuckoo is vanishing.(more)

More than 50 new species found in New Guinea. (more)

BirdLife campaigns to save migratory birds.(more)

Websites catering for online birdwatchers, allow enthusiasts to see stunning sights in exotic locations from the comfort of their own home. (more)

Hungry whales steal birds' dinner. (more)

A Chinese eco-city: city of dreams. (more)

Africa's first bird extinction likely within four years.(more)

Solving the mystery of the vanishing bees.(more)

Seven Mississippi sandhill cranes dead. (more)

Arctic states gather to try to save polar bear from global warming. (more)

Feral parakeets: Japan.(more)

State of birds: Nature Conservancy. (more)

Federal report highlights threat to Hawaii birds. (more)

Rare birds confiscated in Russia.(more)

Nearly a third of U.S. bird species in trouble.(more)

The discovery of a new bird to science in a distant archipelago...(more)

Taita falcon: Encounter with a rare bird. (more)

Crofters given grants to prevent sea eagle culling.(more)

China aims to regrow its 'empty forests'.(more)

The Age of Stupid: Postlethwaite lambasts climate deniers on eve of green film premiere.(more)

Central Coast condor found shot and lead-poisoned.(more)

Protection sought for Kittlitz’s Murrelet, Alaskan seabird imperiled by global warming. (more)

Handouts for farmers who help to support sea eagles. (more)

Birds of paradise: on a wing and a prayer. (more)

Shortlisted natural history images from the Sony world photography awards.(more)

Bringing back the peacock in Kenyir. (more)

California community declares war on woodpeckers.(more)

UN set gold standard for reducing seabird bycatch.(more)

May the magpie of happiness return to roost in our trees. (more)

Blacknecked cranes fly in SW China. (more)

Britain's birds facing extinction as climate change leaves them with nowhere to go.(more)

US ex-fireman's life is for the birds.(more)

Save the whale (again): Secret plan to lift hunting ban. (more)

The albatross: flying high, again... (more)

Birds' love nest given makeover. (more)

Jimmy Carter in the Middle East: peace and bird watching.(more)

The Painted Bunting Observer Team project needs your assistance with these brightly colored migratory birds.(more)

Illegal trade in endangered birds flourishes in Delhi. (more)

Naval officers accused of shooting 21 protected birds. (more)

Rescue flight. (more)

Rare Philippines quail spotted - on way to cooking pot.(more)

The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan.(more)

Syncrude faces fines for duck deaths. (more)

Vanishing Philippines wetlands threatens Arctic bird migration.(more)

Endangered bird of prey could be released into the wild across England. (more)

Endangered sites see boom in 'tourism of doom'.(more)

US President wants the world's two biggest polluters to form a partnership in the battle against global warming. (more)

China: massive search for missing migratory birds.(more)

U.K.'s Brown 'is not being green enough'.(more)

More than 110 species of birds are adding to the academic air at Universiti Darul Iman Malaysia.(more)

Thousands of songbirds may once again be trapped and crushed to death under stone slabs. (more)

Diary: New Guinea's secret species.(more)

The winning images of the International Wildbird Photographer 2008 Award have been announced.(more)

British Birdwatching Fair continues to prevent extinction.(more)

World Economic Forum wants $10tn to save the world. (more)

Bird lovers join Garden Birdwatch.(more)

A gang of cool customers has been causing a stir among Northern Ireland's birdwatchers. (more)

Plans to re-introduce rare cirl bunting to Jersey. (more)

Oil spill in Russian Far East kills hundreds of birds.(more)

Situated on the central European-African flyway the Maltese Islands should be a haven for migrating birds. (more)

Swans, seagulls migrate to Chengshanwei swan lake.(more)

Bird lovers join Garden Birdwatch.(more)

Bird-brained twitchers slammed. (more)

State of Birds in Wales report to be published tomorrow is expected to show a further decline in some species. (more)

'The biggest environmental crime in history'. (more)

Winged wonder: Young snowy owl lands in Cornwall.(more)

Parks plan to boost London's house sparrows.(more)

Macquarie Island faces 'ecosystem meltdown' after conservation efforts backfire.(more)

As the crow flies: birds flee Tehran's polluted air.(more)

President 'has four years to save Earth'. (more)

11 Eleventh-our Bush environmental rule changes.(more)

Authorities warn: stay away from the wild turkey in New York’s Central Park.(more)

Twitchers waited hours to see a rare bird – then watched as a buzzard made a meal of it.(more)

Tags reveal birds' ocean odyssey.(more)

The Common Kingfisher is Germany’s "Bird of the year" 2009.(more)

Hundreds of pelicans found dead along west coast of US. (more)

Rare Siberian bird seen in London. (more)

2009 Christmas bird count finds 23,000 birds. (more)

Migrating birds -- one of winter's most dramatic spectacles.(more)

Qatari fund for conservation of birds to meet.(more)

Bush protects unique areas across the Pacific.(more)

Abandoned fishing nets are turned to energy.(more)

Feathered friend: Man's special relationship with birds.(more)

The universe appears to be fractal, cyclic and self- regenerating. Implied is that it is eternal and infinite.(more)

Research

Some moa like giant chicken, research reveals.more)

Spotted owls face genetic bottleneck.(more)

Female ducks fight back against 'raping' males. (more)

Birds didn’t come from dinosaurs, study suggests.(more)

Study turns pigeons into “art critics”.(more)

A new solar-powered aircraft attempts to fly around the world with zero emissions.(more)

Traditional taxonomists are an endangered species.(more)

Male hummingbirds break speed record for love. (more)

Slowing the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet--but it doesn't require population control.(more)

Siberian jays use complex communications.(more)

Artificial insemination leads to rare breeding of endangered Chinese crane.(more)

Global bird species in serious decline.(more)

Parks can save birds as climate changes.(more)

Bird migrations set to increase: added distance is 'considerable threat' to some species. (more)

Noisy ecotourists get wild birds in a flap. (more)

Those rooks are no bird-brains.(more)

Bad environment makes birds good singers.(more)

Mockingbirds can recognize a face in a crowd.(more)

Everybody knows that birds sing. But it appears that some can dance, too.(more)

Meet the brains of the animal world.(more)

Texas wind farm pioneers radar technology to protect migrating birds.(more)

Birds can dance, experts (and zany videos) reveal.(more)

Birds can dance like humans.(more)

Bird can “read” human gaze.(more)

Exploiting a little-known punch/counterpunch strategy in the ongoing battle between disease-causing fungi and crop plants, scientists in Canada are reporting development of a new class of "green" fungicides.(more)

Climate change is killing off cranefly and in turn threatening the survival of upland wild bird species that feed on them. (more)

Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale.(more)

The Internet could be used as an early warning system for potential ecological disasters.(more)

Dinosaurs: our feathered friends.(more)

Some female songbirds sweet singing turns downright catty when another chick enters the picture. (more)

Doubt cast over bird evolution.(more)

Change of lighting could drastically reduce bird death by collision with communication towers.(more)

Swifts may hold secret of staying young. (more)

Hen birds turn up the volume to see off flighty rivals.(more)

Male nightingales explore by day, seduce by night.(more)

Cats tagged in bird killing study. (more)

Microchip-implanted penguins in Argentina are helping scientists by just doing what comes naturally on the birds' favorite "highway" to the sea.(more)

New technology may prevent bird strikes.(more)

Study links seabird deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae.(more)

Declining numbers of a shorebird called the red knot have been linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs.(more)

Assisted colonisation can play a vital role in helping wildlife to survive in a warming world.(more)

Is there a future for flightless grebes? (more)

Our ability to conserve and protect wildlife is at risk because we are unable to accurately gauge how our environment is changing over time.(more)

North could be the new south for wintering birds.(more)

Penguin survival is being challenged by wide variability in conditions and food availability.(more)

Scientists flabbergasted by speedy birds.(more)

Duke ecologist preaches 'natural' security for homeland defense.(more)

Simon Conway-Morris on evolution Beyond Darwin. (more)

Where are all the migratory birds going?(more)

Impacts of wind farms on birds: a review. NZ Department of Conservation.(more)

DNA confirms fastest evolving birds.(more)

Europe’s aquatic birds will seek new nesting sites in face of global warming.(more)

Ottawa boy's invisible invention warns birds about deadly windows.(more)

Scientists use Brownian Motion to explore how birds flock together.(more)

Guam's birds gone: can forest survive? (more)

Birds used brainpower to survive extinction threat.(more)

Biologists debate the scale of extinction in the world’s tropical forests.(more)

A fossil of a primitive feathered dinosaur uncovered in China is helping scientists create a better model of how dinosaurs evolved into modern birds. (more)

Earliest bird 'heard like an emu'.(more)

The New Zealand Journal of Ecology (more)

Transoceanic route may function as an ecological corridor for bar-tailed godwits rather than a barrier, providing a wind-assisted passage relatively free of pathogens and predators.(more)

Australasia was probably where the parrots originated.(more)

Baby birds practise new songs while they sleep.(more)

DNA tests show that the Hawaiian honeyeaters are not related to similar birds in Australia.(more)

Argentina raptor bones link to bird origins.(more)

Noah Strycker's Antarctic life is for the birds. (more)

Avipel corn seed treatment to repel birds gets EPA approval in Minnesota.(more)

Birds brooding similar to dinosaurs.(more)

The Jesus Christ hypothesis for the evolution of flight. (more)

Flapping flags may shed light on how fish school and birds flock.(more)

Bird population estimates are flawed, new study shows.(more)

The scent of a warbler: birds may use sense of smell in mating. (more)

Alarming accumulation of mercury in the blood and feathers of bald eagle chicks in the Catskill Park region of New York. (more)

Leylandii may be to blame for house sparrow decline.(more)

Common cold virus came from birds.(more)

Birds, like us, know the song before they sing.(more)

'Multilingual' birds learn foreign alarm calls.(more)

Chemical released by trees can help cool planet.(more)

Small feathered dinosaur fossil could be 'birds' ancestor'.(more)

“Other half” of Darwin’s theory passes test.(more)

Exotic climate study sees refugees in Antarctica. (more)

"Chemical Equator" divides Earth's hemispheres.(more)

Fossils show that dinosaur breathed same way as birds. (more)

Early birds get to survive changing climate.(more)

Why are there so few smart mammals (but so many smart birds)? (more)

Love is the drug for male finches.(more)

A new database will warn companies if their activities threaten rare species.(more)

Eagles "cannibalizing" other birds as otters disappear.(more)

Male songbirds are high on love.(more)

Plane-sized bird.(more)

Is focusing on "Hot Spots" the key to preserving biodiversity?(more)

Crows make monkeys out of chimps in mental test.(more)

Food shortages are forcing some seabirds to attack chicks of their own kind.(more)

Full moon makes birds extra energetic. (more)

Building faux habitat to lure the cactus wren.(more)

Birds recognise themselves in the mirror.(more)

Ancient DNA helps solve the legend of giant eagles.(more)

Theory of flightless birds shot down. (more)

Rival groups of birds behave like football fans, shouting chants at each other and commiserating with each other after a loss.(more)

Pollutants cause birds to sing tainted love songs.(more)

Are birds best hope for pest-ridden coffee crops?(more)

Mirror self-recognition found in magpies.(more)

Mass extinction going on, scientists say. (more)

Ancient tree helps birds survive.(more)

Big-brained animals evolve faster.(more)

How to keep planes, birds from colliding. (more)

Cutting down rainforests can destroy life deep below the sea's surface, as well as that below the trees. (more)

Hooting owls reveal motives of the dawn chorus.(more)

Conservationists have claimed new research shows that rising numbers of birds of prey need not "spell disaster" for other threatened species. (more)

Incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations: Australian government report.(more)

Climate maps offer wildlife hope of sanctuary.(more)

Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect.(more)

A variety of bird species are extending their breeding ranges to the north, a pattern that adds to concerns about climate change. (more)

In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel—a sort of artificial photosynthesis.(more)

Bio-acoustic method also hears nature's cry for help.(more)

Emerging scientific discipline of Aeroecology.(more)

European birds flock to warming Britain.(more)

Is it too late to save the great migrations? (more)

Scientists search for alien life forms.(more)

The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb". (more)

The plumage patterns of long-dead birds may yield to modern technology.(more)

The fastest muscles known lie within the throats of songbirds.(more)

Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists.(more)

Human influences challenge penguin populations. (more)

Tit-for-tat: birds found to repay wartime help.(more)

Penguin chicks frozen by global warming?(more)

Birds use colour to identify eggs of 'parasite' birds. (more)

Migrating birds learn and understand the common calls of unrelated bird species that they encounter during their long journeys. (more)

Penguin populations falling steeply: biologist.(more)

Genetic research rewrites biology textbooks and field guides. (more)

Bird watchers and space technology come together. (more)

How to p-p-p pick out a penguin from a crowd of 20,000 ‘identical’ birds.(more)

Birds kill siblings, hormones blamed. (more)

Birds communicate reproductive success in song.(more)

Vertical Farms: "Growing Up Sustainably". (more)

Test rules out nesting birds as factor in spread of forest fires. (more)

Naturalists, scientists trying to keep birds from crashing into skyscrapers.(more)

Dangerous relations: Family tree maps birds at risk. (more)

Birds Korea National Shorebird Survey 2008:(more)

The saga of barn-swallow research is a bit like a soap opera...(more)

Storking the ancient skies.(more)

Ecological globalization.(more)

Wireless networks help track rare birds.(more)

Oldest parrot fossil found -- In Scandinavia? (more)

How cuckoos trick their way into another bird's nest.(more)

India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight.(more)

Do birds see better than humans?(more)

Recipe for energy saving unravelled in migratory birds. (more)

Gravity-defying bird beak mystery solved.(more)

British birds adapt to changing climate.(more)

Decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores of the insecticide are now trickling out of melting Antarctic glaciers. The change means Adélie penguins...(more)

Birdwatching in stereo captures flocks in 3D.(more)

Birds can detect predators using smell.(more)

Young birds babble like babies. (more)

Ancient ecosystems organized much like our own. (more)

Birds can tell if you are watching them -- because they are watching you.(more)

Do birds see with quantum eyes? (more)

How birds navigate: research team is first to model photochemical compass. (more)

Birds on the verge of extinction.(more)

Climate Change study predicts hazy future for Europe's birds.(more)

Climate change has birds out on a limb. (more)

A molecular analysis of a 68-million-year-old sample of collagen protein from a Tyrannosaurus Rex confirms dinosaurs' evolutionary link to modern birds. (more)

Mercury in river moves into terrestrial food chain through spiders fed to baby birds.(more)

Birds smart enough to stand guard.(more)

Hitchcock was right: Birds cooperate in task-solving.(more)

Migratory birds make mistakes in terms of direction, but not distance.(more)

Cause of bird beak deformity stumps scientists. (more)

New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds.(more)

Rooks team up to solve problems. (more)

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