As described in the article below, the success of waterfowl conservation efforts proves it is possible to save bellwether species. This conservation success stands in stark contrast to the fate of other iconic species like […]
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Birds Are Vanishing From North America
This is not about “climate change”. It’s about agricultural chemicals.
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One of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside of a Duck
Nature constantly introduces new plants into new places as this article on the spread of the lowly duckweed illustrates. Usually “alien exotic” plants don’t “invade” stable systems, but colonize damaged habitats where they previously couldn’t […]
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A Texas Native Recovers
Not long before the first European (Viking) explorations in North America, condors were still present in Texas. As published by U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., November 2S, 1932, ALEXANDER WETMORE and HERBERT FRIEDMANN […]
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Farmland Birds in France Are in Steep Decline
Scientists involved in long-running regional and national bird-counting surveys in France have reported precipitous declines in agricultural regions, even among common birds such as blackbirds that are well adapted to human activity and do well […]
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Arizona’s Gambel’s Country
Far-West Texas is the Eastern limit of this amazing and beautiful gamebird. Gambel’s Quail need brushy habitat which gets grazed. So landowners considering brush and cattle removals should understand this: No brush, no cows, no […]
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