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With less than 500 individuals left in the wild, Northern Bald Ibis is in bad shape.  It’s quite disturbing when one reads messages like the one below where birders are disregarding the needs of these birds. These are excerpts of a message from the RSPB‘s Chris Bowden: “I want to thank the 95+% of birders [...]

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified three additional bird species as “critically endangered.” This from the IUCN: “BirdLife International, which conducted the research for the IUCN Red List, found 1,227 species (12 percent) are classified as globally threatened with extinction. The good news is that when conservation action is put in [...]

Satellite tracking is increasingly being used to track and provide valuable insight into the movement of birds. In a recent doctoral study at the University of Glasgow, Leandro Bugoni applied satellite transmitter technology to track several albatross and petrel species off the coast of Brazil. His research focused on different aspects of seabird biology, however [...]