Results for keyword: endangered birds
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Encountering a California condor takes one writer back in time
An interaction with a rare vulture sparks reflections on dinosaurs and extinction.
by Liza Gross, Jun 23, 2011 -
The birds and the bee(tle)s
A controversial tamarisk control program is shut down over worries that it threatens rare southwestern willow flycatchers.
by Rachel Zurer, Oct 13, 2010 -
Birds can only fly so far
The birds in California’s Joshua Tree National Park will need human help to survive climate change.
by Seth Shteir , Jul 09, 2009 -
Getting the lead out
Condor 134’s harrowing experience with lead poisoning exemplifies these endangered birds’ greatest challenge – which some advocates hope to ease by banning lead bullets in California
by Mitch Tobin, Mar 05, 2007 -
The West is not a zoo
The Peregrine Fund has proven that it can breed and release endangered birds of prey as often as it needs to, but do we want to treat Western wildlife like a crop of annual flowers that has to be re-seeded every year?
by Paul Larmer, Nov 13, 2006 -
Falcon's future rests on a definition
Endangered aplomado falcons already in New Mexico may lose protection under a controversial Fish and Wildlife Service plan to release captive-bred birds as a "nonessential experimental population."
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jul 24, 2006 -
On a wing and a prayer
The Gunnison sage grouse has been denied endangered species protection, and biologists like Clait Braun fear the species may be doomed
by Joshua Zaffos, Jun 12, 2006 -
On the wing again
In Condor: To the Brink and Back, science reporter John Nielsen surveys the life and times of "one giant bird."
by Jim Rossi, Apr 17, 2006
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