Birding Wire

Protection

As Congress and the Administration consider major policy changes affecting birds and public lands, hundreds of conservation groups, birdwatching clubs, and wildlife rehabilitators, along with tens of thousands of individual citizens, have endorsed a Together for Birds petition asking lawmakers to continue advancing bird conservation.
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The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it has finalized a rule that will help protect and conserve eagle populations through revised permitting processes and monitoring requirements, including revisions to the permitting system for unintentional prohibited impacts to eagles.
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Put in place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), new guidelines strongly encourage tower operators to turn off or reprogram steady-burning red or white lights in favor of flashing lights, which are less harmful to birds yet still alert pilots to the towers' presence.
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On March 25, 2016, a block of 541 acres of Columbia River lowlands was transferred to the Columbia Land Trust, a Washington-Oregon land conservation nonprofit organization, from the Port of Vancouver USA, a Washington state agency, for the protection of Sandhill Cranes and other species.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has taken action to reduce a serious threat to birds, issuing a memorandum to its field offices across the nation with guidance on how to eliminate the threat of open pipes on public lands.
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There are bright spots to the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon spill that periodically emerge, such as a report from American Bird Conservancy (ABC) on a Gulf-wide, multi-partner bird conservation effort that continues to gain momentum and deliver important successes in protecting wild birds impacted by the spill.
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