Category: Birdwatching

Saving Ranching to Save Wildlife

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

Most of the grasslands in the Great Plains exist as rangelands – managed and stewarded by private landowners. Yet rising costs and the fact that ranching earns less than any other land use have cut rancher numbers in half since the 1980s. As we lose these ranchers, we lose the valuable grassland ecosystems that support their livelihoods, rural communities, water and wildlife.

The Lesser Prairie-Chicken – an iconic grassland bird famous for its spring dances – has lost 97% of its population since the 1800s. With 95% of

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher: Springtime Sprite

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The lively little Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) is a welcome sign of early spring, bouncing through the burgeoning trees with a quick-flicking tail and wheezy, high-pitched calls. A glimpse of this bird reveals a slender, blue-gray sprite with white eyerings and a long black tail edged in white.

Most members of its genus, Polioptila (the name combines the Ancient Greek words for gray and plumage), are resident in Central and South America. These small, active birds are related to wrens, such as the Carolina Wren and Northern House Wren.

The

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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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