"Wildlife Refuges Generate More Than $2 Billion A Year, Report Finds"
"Bird watching, hunting or just picnicking. Whatever the reason, visits to the nation's 561 wildlife refuges are big business."
Source: AP, 11/06/2013
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Flying the Coop: Antibiotic Resistance Spreads To Birds, Wildlife
"One afternoon last winter, Julie Ellis unfurled a long, white tarp under a stand of trees near Coes Pond where hundreds of crows roost. Her mission: to collect as much bird poop as possible. Back in the laboratory, Ellis’ colleagues combed through the feces. Testing its bacteria, they discovered something unusual -- genes that make the crows resistant to antibiotics."
Source: EHN, 11/05/2013
USDA Speed-Up Poultry-Processing Lines Could Raise Risk of Bird Abuse
"Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water, Agriculture Department records show."
Source: Wash Post, 10/30/2013
"Banning Lead Ammunition Could Give Condors a Chance"
"California's namesake condors nearly went extinct in the 1980s, and only intensive management and captive breeding efforts brought the birds back from the brink. Lead from ammunition remains a major threat to condor recovery, and a new California ban on the toxic ammunition for hunting could help protect the iconic birds, as well as other bird and mammal species."
Source: NatGeo, 10/15/2013
"Bald Eagles Are Back In A Big Way — And The Talons Are Out"
"'It's a jungle if you're an eagle right now on the Chesapeake Bay,' says Bryan Watts, a conservation biologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. 'You have to watch your back.'"
Source: NPR, 09/04/2013
"Lead Poisoning Killing Loons, Necropsies Show"
"NORTH GRAFTON, Mass. -- A loon was beached on Cobbossee Lake in Winthrop, Maine, a maggot-filled wing wound keeping it from flying or resisting capture from a game warden."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 09/03/2013
Drought Brings Tough Times for Texas Rice Farms and Visiting Ducks
"Ronald Gertson usually plants about 3,000 acres of rice each year on his family farm in Wharton County, Texas. But because of emergency water regulations set in 2012 due to central Texas' painfully persistent drought, Gertson could plant about 40 percent of that land."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/23/2013
"Moscow Investigates 'Pigeon Apocalypse'"
"Officials raise alert as 'zombie' birds fall to earth amid fears city may be in grip of avian ailment Newcastle disease."
Source: Guardian, 08/20/2013
"Wood Storks Are Again Calling the South Carolina Coast Home"
"No more than 15 years ago, it would have made a bird watcher's week to see the seldom-seen wood stork. Today, a daily siting is not unusual."
Source: Island Packet, 08/13/2013
"In Montana Wilds, An Unlikely Alliance To Save The Sage Grouse"
"As its name implies, the sage grouse lives in sagebrush country, the rolling hills of knee-high scrub that's the common backdrop in movie Westerns. Pristine sagebrush is disappearing, however, and so are the birds. Biologists want to protect the sage grouse, but without starting a 21st century range war over it. So they've undertaken a grand experiment in the American West, to keep the grouse happy, as well as cattle ranchers and the energy industry."
Source: NPR, 07/10/2013
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