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Old 12-06-2008, 03:16 PM
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Endangered birds

Seems to be bad news everywhere about declining bird species - in Europe:
British birds face potential eco-disaster - Telegraph

Canada:
Nature Canada:

Australia:
Parrots in Danger

Anyone got any good news?
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I'm sure there's plenty of good news, just can't think what it is just now.
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In southern Australia we also have the Hooded Plover that is under threat. Thinornis rubricollis. Gorgeous little shore bird.
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I'm sure there's plenty of good news, just can't think what it is just now.
Well the RSPB is trying to look on the bright side: some species have had quite a good year ...... BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Breeding success for Farne birds
but not many.
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Old 20-11-2008, 09:49 AM
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What formerly common birds are now endangered in other parts of the world?
BBC NEWS | UK | Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'
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The pretty Gouldian finch is a popular aviary bird, but there are less than 2500 birds left in the wild. It was once common in northern Australia.

National Threatened Species Day - Gouldian finch - Erythrura gouldiae - fact sheet
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Crikey - you couldn't miss that one; not what you'd call sombre colours!

Very interesting ecology - water and fire dependent, sort of - hopefully conservation measures will be effective.
Thanks for revealing a bird I've never heard of ....

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The pretty Gouldian finch is a popular aviary bird, but there are less than 2500 birds left in the wild. It was once common in northern Australia.

National Threatened Species Day - Gouldian finch - Erythrura gouldiae - fact sheet
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Climate change induced change of bird numbers

Seems to confirm that some birds are already having problems due to climate change:
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Climate 'hitting Europe's birds'
They quote lapwings, Vanellus vanellus, as a threatened species. Oddly I've seen more of them this winter than for many years past. One particularly large flock in the wet waste ground in Chesterfield that will become the new football stadium. It's quite likely, in the case of lapwings and other wetland birds, that it is loss of lakes and marshes which is affecting them rather than climate as such?
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Same in America ....

Seems to be similar things in US:
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | US birds in 'widespread decline'
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It seems that conservation measures to protect endangered birds are being successful in many cases (), unfortunately many formerly common birds are now becoming rarer ()
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Rare birds 'faring better' in UK
Will we ever get a balance where nothing is endangered?
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Here's an unusual threat to birds.
Apparently lots of birds in USA killed/injured by fireworks ....
BBC News - Fireworks may have caused Arkansas bird deaths
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