Summer Birding at Kanha National Park11 May 2009 Please find a checklist of birds at Kanha seen from period 5th May to 9 May 09.
Summer Birding at Kanha.
On recent trip to Kanha with friends, I check listed some... [Read more]
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Hope for Seychelles' last Critically Endangered species
23 June 2009 - The first Seychelles Paradise-flycatcher chicks to fledge successfully outside La Digue Island, Seychelles for over 60 years is flying on Denis Island, a coral island in the inner Seychelles group. The paradise-flycatcher is the only Seychelles species still listed as Critically Endangered. Formerly Critically Endangered Species including Seychelles Magpie-robin [Copsychus sechellarum], Seychelles White-eye [Zosterops modestus] and Seychelles Scops-owl [Otus insularis] have all been downlisted as a result of conservation action. The population of the paradise-flycatcher has been steadily increasing in recent years. In 1996 there were 69-83 pairs; this had risen to 104-139 pairs by the last comprehensive survey in 2000. Read more on www.birdlife.org
The biggest twitch - a new world yearlist record!
5 February 2009 - An article in the recent issue of Birding World describes how Alan Davies and Ruth Miller during 2008 travelled the world to beat the previous yearlist by Jim Clements (3,662 species in 1989). Read more here
Two more California Condor chicks flying free at Grand Canyon
5 December 2008 - This year, two wild chicks hatched and fledged in Grand Canyon National Park, bringing the Arizona population close to 70 and the word’s total population (captive and free-flying) to well over 320. The world population was down to just 22 birds; and by 1987, all of the world’s remaining California Condors were in captivity. It was not until reintroduction in northern Arizona began in 1996 that condors were once again seen flying over the Grand Canyon; and in 2003, Arizona’s first “wild-hatched” chick in over 100 years hatched in Grand Canyon National Park. Read more on www.peregrinefund.org
Quest to find Slender-billed Curlew
4 December 2008 - The RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and other partners have launched a last push to find one of the world's rarest birds. They have issued a call to search for and find any remaining populations of Slender-billed Curlew. Classified as Critically Endangered, Slender-billed Curlew is the rarest species found in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with no confirmed records since 1999. Flocks of over 100 birds were recorded from Morocco as late as the 1960s and 1970s. However, between 1980 and 1990, there were only 103 records, and from 1990-1999, this dropped to 74, with most recent verified records being of one to three birds. If we lose this species, it will be the first extinction of a European bird since Canary Islands Oystercatcher [Haematopus meadewaldoi] in 1981. Read more on www.birdlife.org
Good news for Socotra endemics
23 July 2008 - The Socotra Archipelago, off the coast of the Horn of Africa and a part of Yemen, has been added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Natural Sites. Bird species restricted to Socotra include the near-threatened Island Cisticola, Socotra Warbler, Socotra Starling, Socotra Sunbird, the Vulnerable Socotra Bunting. Also only found on the island is the Socotra Grosbeak, part of the complex of species which Yemen recently appointed as its national bird, the Golden-winged Grosbeak. A further 11 subspecies are endemic to the island. Read more on www.birdlife.org
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