"First Penguins Die In Antarctic Of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Strain"
"With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies".
Source: Guardian, 01/30/2024
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"Migratory Bird Rule Likely Shelved Until After November Election"
"A new rule imposing penalties for migratory bird killings associated with energy development, construction, and poaching is unlikely to be proposed by the Interior Department before the end of the current presidential term, legal experts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/24/2024
Analysis: "Bird Populations Are Declining. Some Are In Your Neighborhood."
"I’m on a Zoom call with a team of researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, their gridded video feeds a sort of Hollywood Squares of bird nerds, and we’re discussing the decline and fall of North America’s bird population — a staggering loss of 3 billion breeding adults, or nearly 30 percent of the population, in just a half century — when all of a sudden Gus Axelson picks up his binoculars and peers out the window."
Source: Washington Post, 01/18/2024
New Flu Strain Is Attacking Hundreds Of Animal Species. Humans Could Be Next
"An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including elephant seals."
Source: Washington Post, 01/17/2024
"Polar Bear Dies From Bird Flu As H5N1 Spreads Across Globe"
"A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet."
Source: Guardian, 01/03/2024
"Bird Flu Set To Spread In Antarctic Causing Huge Damage, Report Says"
"Bird flu is likely to spread further in the Antarctic region, causing immense damage to wildlife, according to experts on the highly contagious disease that has killed hundreds of millions of birds worldwide in recent years."
Source: Reuters, 12/22/2023
"Bird Flu Is Still Causing Havoc. Here’s the Latest."
"The virus, which recently reached the Antarctic region for the first time, is surging again in North America."
Source: NYTimes, 12/18/2023
"Looking For Honey? This African Bird Will Heed Your Call And Take You There"
"A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them."
Source: NPR, 12/11/2023
After Decades of Decline, a Feathered Icon Breeds in New Zealand Capital
"The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort."
Source: NYTimes, 12/05/2023
The Love Story Of An Endangered Tree And The Little Bird Who Eats Its Seeds
"The balance of an ecosystem hangs on the survival of a scraggly mountain tree. In northwest B.C., ecologists are facing climate change, droughts and wildfires as they work to protect whitebark pine and the species that rely on it".
Source: The Narwhal, 11/30/2023
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