Birding Wire

Endangered Species

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries received the second of three shipments of Whooping Cranes this year on Thursday, Dec. 1, when a Windway Capitol Corporation jet landed at Abbeville Airport carrying 10 of the big birds from Patuxent Wildlife Research in Laurel, Md.
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Program biologists from The Peregrine Fund and Zion National Park have confirmed that two California condor chicks have left their nests and taken flight in northern Arizona, but hopes of a third chick successfully reaching the fledgling milestone in southern Utah have been dashed by a lack of visual observation.
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A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for a federally and state-protected whooping crane believed to have been shot in southern Greene County, Indiana, near the White River around late December 2013.
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In partnership with Indiana Department of Natural Resources TIP Advisory Board, the Midwest Region of the US Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information regarding a federally and state-protected whooping crane that is believed to have been shot in southern Greene County, Indiana, near the White River around late December 2013.
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The Southwest Condor Workgroup optimistically reports that a California condor may have hatched in the wild in Utah for the first time since the endangered species was released in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona in 1996.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Wildlife biologists have confirmed the presence of five federally protected whooping cranes in Kentucky's Hopkins County and received a report of a sixth in Barren County, while the state's sandhill crane hunting season begins Dec. 14.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct. 28 announced a final rule to list four Colombian bird species - the blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti), brown-banded antpitta (Grallaria milleri), Cauca guan (Penelope perspicax), and gorgeted wood-quail (Odontophorus strophium) - and one Ecuadorian bird species - the Esmeraldas woodstar (Chaetocercus berlepschi) - as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Three endangered species-the Interior Least Tern, the pallid sturgeon and the fat pocketbook mussel-will benefit from recent changes in river engineering practices, which have been formalized in a landmark Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for the Lower Mississippi River signed at the end of August by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
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