A two-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife sting nabs 35
individuals and businesses in the Southwest for killing and selling
protected migratory birds.
Birds
A writer reflects on natural cycles of absence and abundance, loss and love.
An ecologist and a photographer teamed to document and build a living archive of the Borderlands’ biodiversity — before it’s too late.
Research using crowdsourced data found a correlation with the birds’ deaths, nearby fires and toxic air.
The group Hawk Watch International reports that some birds
of prey - merlins, ospreys and peregrine falcons - are doing well,
although others, including northern goshawks and golden eagles,
continue to decline.
Idaho approves a sandhill crane hunt to appease farmers
who are losing crops to the birds.
Under the salvage logging rider, thousands of acres of
habitat of the endangered marbled murrelet may be cut in coastal
Washington and Oregon.
Rancher Jim Maitland rescues an injured golden eagle in
southwestern Oregon.
In this book "Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows,
Ravens, Magpies, and Jays," writer Candace Savage celebrates Corvid
IQs.
The Forest Service is blamed when loggers cut trees within
yards of a nest of rare goshawk fledglings, causing them to
die.
Endangered California condors are being released in
northern Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs.
Colorado conservationists object to Division of Wildlife's
desire to introduce a non-native game bird, the ruffed
grouse.
A slew of eagle-poaching incidents in southwest Idaho may
be linked to illegal wildlife trade.
Utah's first trumpeter swans are settling at a golf course
near St. George.
A hawk snatches a garter snake off a sleeping teenager's
chest in a remarkable incident in Montana.
Oil pits kill thousands of migrating birds.
Population of trumpeter swans in Yellowstone National Park
down due to competition from other birds.
President Clinton signs the Snake River Birds of Prey
National Conservation Area into law.
The Great Plains bird populations are declining.
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