Archive for the 'News' Category
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
I found this news… Seem like there are lots of changes happen in these few years… the climate change and all the birds of prey also need to adapt… wonder is there any species that unable to make it… Who knew? Snowy owl spotted here With food scarce in Canada, owl makes rare Waukesha visit [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
I never know that there are black barn owl… it look nice… This young barn owl is one in a million after being born with a rare genetic condition that has made her feathers jet black. Sable, who is two years old, suffers from melanism, a 100,000-to-one gene mutation that makes her the exact opposite [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire’s peregrine falcon population continues to increase, with 27 young raised this year in nests on natural cliffs, a city building, and an interstate highway bridge. Because of the improvement in the status of peregrines, the Fish and Game Department recently moved the fast-flying raptor from the endangered to the threatened [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has donated 150 falcons to the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition 2008. The falcons were kept at the pro-falcon breeding project in Al Ain, one of the world’s leading projects to preserve falcons. Shaikh Khalifa’s gesture aims at highlighting the significance of [...]
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A golden eagle chick has successfully fledged near the site of a bird poisoning in the Scottish Borders. The killing of one half of the only breeding pair of golden eagles in the region last year sparked fears for the future of the species in the area. However, earlier this summer the surviving male bird [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Ever since they moved to Legacy Ridge, Ali and Mark Huitt enjoyed watching a pair of Swainson’s hawks — and their progeny — that made their home in a stand of neglected old trees at the entrance to their new neighbourhood. The couple moved to a home on Thyrza Burkitt Link a couple of years [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
A nesting pair of eagles raised a chick this spring and summer on Carr Island in Salisbury. The young bird has left the nest. A nesting pair of eagles raised a chick this spring and summer on Carr Island in Salisbury. The young bird has left the nest. (Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife) Carr [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Bonita Springs is named in a lawsuit filed by three Bonita Bay residents unhappy new homes will be built near their homes and the city’s oldest eagle’s nest. Bonita Bay also is named in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday. The suit asks for an emergency temporary restraining order on city-issued development orders that allow [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
After ospreys flocked to several of the nesting towers Verizon built in Monmouth and Ocean counties last year, the company is providing funding for the construction of four more such towers in the state. The announcement was made Thursday (Oct. 23) at the dedication of the latest nesting tower, built in Ocean City. Mayor Salvatore [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
They are more at home feeding on carcasses in the middle of the desert – so a Black Country woman was more than a little surprised to see a giant vulture perched on top of a neighbour’s house. Busy preening itself on a rooftop in Scholar’s Walk, Rushall, the bird was photographed by shocked resident [...]
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