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Snow Goose Festival soars to conclusion : Video

By RYAN OLSON – Staff Writer
Posted: 01/31/2010 10:26:39 PM PST
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Chico Junior High School teacher Andy Wahl puts on a falconry demonstration as part of the Snow…
CHICO — With this year’s Snow Goose Festival in the books, organizers are calling it one of the most successful efforts yet.
Sunday’s presentations included a falconry demonstration [...]

Hawk healing after Sugar Grove plane crash

Good news is rising from the ashes of tragedy after last week’s fatal plane crash in Sugar Grove. A hawk, badly burned, seems to be making an amazing recovery. “When I saw the bird, I was shocked,” said Dawn Keller, executive director of the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, who has treated more [...]

A Burning Problem: Toxic Flame Retardants Found in Peregrine Falcons

by Kent McFarland (New England)

What do your computer and a peregrine falcon have in common? For most of us in rural New England, it unfortunately isn’t speed. Rather it is polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), a group of chemicals used as flame retardants. There are dozens of varieties of PBDE. Furniture foam contains penta-BDE, computer plastics [...]

A raptor is no love bird, but falconer Mike Bodary finds joy in care and training : Tennessee

By Barbara Bradley
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The falconer’s life may not be as picturesque as it once was. Mike Bodary doesn’t ride out on a princely steed and uncloak his exotic bird of prey. Instead, he drives a pickup into scrub land and unleashes Gonzo, the chicken hawk.
Bodary walks the brush scaring up prey and Gonzo, [...]

Protecting Our Vanishing Wildlife : Mongolia

Written by Ch.Sumiyabazar
Friday, January 15, 2010.
Mongolian scientists have found that in the last 20 years, some species of Mongolian wildlife have declined in number by as much as 70-90%.In many cases, formerly abundant species such as the Mongolian Marmot, Red Fox, and Corsac Fox, are having to be reclassified as ‘endangered’ or ‘rare’. Sadly, the [...]

New Falconry Legislation possible : Montana

Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission will meet today at the FWP Helena Headquarters in Helena at 1 p.m.
The FWP Commission will make final decisions on a variety of issues, including acquiring bighorn sheep habitat near Anaconda and a right-of-way for a fishing access site 24 miles west of Bozeman on the Madison River.
The commission [...]

Record number of plane strikes in 2009. (Video)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new report released Tuesday shows that while airports are doing a better job of reporting bird strike incidents, the problem of airplane collisions with wildlife may be bigger than ever. With a sprawling 11,000 acres of land, Kansas City’s International Airport sometimes attracts unwanted visitors. “I’d say, probably [...]

Hawks to take out pesky squirrels : California (Video)

Ground squirrels are getting out of control in a town in California. So the town is putting up perches near the largest colonies in hopes that nature will take its course.

Hawk Mountain releases 2009 bird counts (Pennsylvania)

BY LESLIE RICHARDSON (STAFF WRITER LRICHARDSON@REPUBLICANHERALD.COM)
Published: January 7, 2010

KEMPTON – Hawk Mountain Sanctuary reported 15,559 hawks during its 2009 Hawkwatch.
The number falls below the sanctuary’s most recent 10-year average of 18,421 and biologists suspect that many hawks may have lingered due to the warmer and dryer weather in October and November.
The watch is held annually [...]

Could Falcons Cut Bird Strikes at Sacramento International Airport? (California) :: Video

Sacramento, CA – James Tigan said bird strikes at Sacramento International Airport might be cut dramatically by using falcons to frighten away migratory birds.

The owner of Tactical Avian Predators told News10 England’s Royal Air Force has been using falcons at it’s airbases since the end of World War II. “Falconry is just one tool, but it’s proven to be [...]

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