The Birders Report

Northern Pintails In Flight photo by Larry Jordan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a national media teleconference to announce the 2010 “State of the Birds Report,” which this year focuses on the effects of climate change on migratory bird populations in the United States.
Taking part in the teleconference will be [...]

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Burrowing Owl photo by Larry Jordan
If you are concerned about the conservation of bird species in the world and more specifically Burrowing Owls in California please download the Guidance for Burrowing Owl Conservation and read this document.  It has been sitting on a desk at the California Department of Fish and Game for at least [...]

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The Burrowing Owl Community Is Watching photo by Larry Jordan
Scott Artis of JournOwl has uncovered a cover-up at California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) involving the suppression of a report that suggests that their current policy relating to Burrowing Owls amounts to “take.”  ” Take” is a euphemism for “killing” in conservation terms.  Basically [...]

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White-rumped Sandpiper photo by Tim Bowman from Wikipedia Commons
I was listening to NPR on the way to work this morning (as I always do, being a proud supporter of public radio) and heard of an interesting study on arctic shorebirds, their migration and predation.
Laura McKinnon, a researcher with the University of Quebec at Rimouski, wondered [...]

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Bald Eagle photos by Larry Jordan
Biodiversity is described as the variability among living organisms on the Earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems.  In other words, biodiversity is an all encompassing term to describe the variety of all life and natural processes on Earth.

I chose these photos of the [...]

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