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Project SNOWstorm, an international conservation effort conducting cutting-edge snowy owl research, is working fast to raise the funds needed to outfit several snowy owls in each state throughout the Great Lakes region with specially-designed transmitters.
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The 10,000-acre Chickasaw National Recreation Area in south central Oklahoma has become the third National Park Service (NPS) unit to join forces with the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative to restore grassland ecosystems, including wild bobwhite quail, grassland songbirds and pollinators, to the American landscape.
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Concerns that ravenous invasive coqui frogs could reduce the food available for Hawaii's native insect-eating birds, many of which are already declining, spurred researchers to examine the relationship between frog and bird populations—but their results, published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, weren't what they expected.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Once considered an unusual wood-warbler, the Yellow-breasted Chat is no longer classified as part of the family, Parulidae. In 2017, the American Ornithologists' Union gave this bird its own family, Icteriidae, based on its genetic and physical characteristics.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The intelligent and sociable Common Raven has been the subject of mythology, folklore, and literature through the ages. In Native American cultures, it is portrayed as a sly trickster, a spiritual figure, or even a god that helped create the earth.
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As habitat loss and fragmentation continue to threaten the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a study in Montana found livestock grazing seems to have little impact on the bird's nest success, and rotational grazing, meant to improve habitat for the grouse, offers little benefit.
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