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• Birds no longer flock to beach flattened by Ike
GILCHRIST, Texas - One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent. Blame Hurricane Ike. "We had red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, a bunch of migrating birds," recalled Ernest Stone, 75, leaning on his cane ...
• Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds
LONDON - Wind turbines do not drive birds from surrounding areas, British researchers said on Wednesday, in findings which could make it easier to build more wind farms. Conservation groups have raised fears that large birds could get caught in the ...
• Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite
Famous for carving in the Peruvian desert hundreds of geometric lines and images of animals and birds that are best viewed from the air, the Nazca people built Cahuachi as a ceremonial center, molding pyramids, temples and plazas from the desert ...
• Suspected Cockfighting Ring Raided In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA - Authorities said Friday that agents from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided a house in Philadelphia and discovered dozens of birds they said were being used in cockfights. The PSPCA is ...
• U.S. acts to list 48 Hawaiian species under ESA
HONOLULU - The federal government took a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list on Tuesday, proposing an all-at-once addition of 48 species, including plants, two birds and a fly, that live only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai ...