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California drought shrinks winter digs for migratory birds
2015-11-07 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With their red heads, 7-foot (2.13 m) wingspan and a trilling call, migrating Sandhill Cranes provide a dramatic sunset spectacle as they land by the thousands in wetlands near Sacramento each night during the fall and winter. But the state's ongoing drought has left the cranes, along with millions of other waterfowl that migrate from Canada and other northern climes to spend the winter in California, with fewer places to land, threatening their health as they crowd in on one another to seek shelter...
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Climate change clips wings of migratory birds: ornithologist
2015-10-11 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: It takes the dexterity of a lacemaker to remove the tiny bird caught in nets strung between pine trees on Poland's Baltic coast, a veritable paradise for dozens of migratory species. Polish ornithologist Jaroslaw Nowakowski delicately unravels the Goldcrest, among Europe's smallest bird species, placing it inside a muslin bag before moving it to a make-shift laboratory in a tent for measuring and tagging with rings. The hulking professor says studies by the University of Gdansk over the last...
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Fifth Circuit Reverses Citgo Convictions Under Clean Air Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act
2015-09-29 06:46:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No.
New Report Analyzes Tar Sands Threat to Americas Migratory Birds
2014-06-11 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Tar sands mining in the heart of Canada`s boreal forest is putting millions of America`s migratory birds in jeopardy and has already resulted in hundred of thousands of fatalities, according to a new report released today by the National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Council of Maine. An area approximately the size of Florida is being destroyed by tar sands operations: huge open-pit mines, toxic waste tailings ponds, extraction wells, noisy compressor stations, refineries and networks...
New research confirms that our electronics and radio waves disrupt migratory birds
2014-05-08 16:00:04| Extremetech
New research published in Nature suggests that the magnetic sense that governs migration in certain bird species might be attenuated by AM radio transmissions and harmful in urban areas.
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