Category: Birdwatching

Searching for Lost Birds: rediscoveries, extinctions & the potential to find the remaining species

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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The Search for Lost Birds was founded in 2021 with the goal of supporting efforts to search for and update the conservation status of birds

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Preventing Extinctions: New Hope for Hawaiian Forest Birds | ABC Webinar

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Hawai’i is facing a bird extinction crisis. Once home to more than 55 species of native honeycreepers, only 17 species remain today. Several of those are now on the brink of extinction, with habitat loss and avian malaria among their greatest threats. Without bold action, many of the remaining species could vanish within the next decade.

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and partners are working to ensure a future where Hawaiian forest birds and their habitats can not just survive, but thrive. Using cutting-edge science and working in community, we’re restoring

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Double-crested Cormorant: American Shag

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The big, black Double-crested Cormorant is a common waterbird of lakes and shorelines throughout North America. Although it is an expert fisher, its feathers lack the waterproofing common to most other waterbirds, such as the Mallard or Common Loon. Unlike these waterbirds, Double-crested Cormorants don’t have well-developed uropygial glands, which produce the waterproofing oil that birds spread over their feathers as they preen. Consequently, the Double-crested Cormorant has to spend a lot of time drying out, and it can often be sighted atop a piling, jetty, or dock with its

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