Sightings hope for rare farm bird
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A rare farmland bird which conservationists thought had almost died out returns to the Scottish Borders.
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By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer  Every spring, thousands of birds, some weighing a pound or less, set off on a journey of herculean proportions. They fly thousands of miles north, to breeding grounds in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada and to U.S.
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Science & environment: Sightings of reclusive bird known for boom-like call at highest level since detailed monitoring began in 1990.
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One of Earth&#39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po&#39;ouli. The aging male po&#39;ouli died in captivity
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The first bird case has been confirmed by the Pueblo County Health Department. Officials will now survey the area where the bird was found.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--DURHAM -- A great egret is back in the wild after a few weeks of R&R courtesy of the Piedmont Wildlife Center.   The bird, which tends to be coastal and not found this far inland, was seen dangling from a tree Jan.
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A bird once extinct in the UK lays eggs in the wilderness for the first time in more than 170 years.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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The ivory-billed woodpecker supposedly spotted in a patch of Arkansas bayou has remained scarce, as has the economic upswing its admirers might have brought to the local community.
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Kip Davis and Jay Robison saw what they believed was an ivory-billed woodpecker on Thursday, one of thousands of reported sightings piling up as leaves in an east Arkansas swamp drift down.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 17--RANDOLPH COUNTY -- A rare species of flower will remain in its natural habitat in RandolphCounty.
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Bird lovers from all over the country have been flocking to Rutland to catch a brief glimpse of the first English-hatched osprey to breed in England for over 150 years.
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A previously unknown sub-species of bird has been found in the southern Nepal, scientists say.
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One of the UK's rarest breeding ducks almost halves in the past decade, a new survey reveals.
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By Sandra Tan, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 20--The Henslow's sparrow prefers to stay hidden. But the threatened species has been found in Lancaster, and its presence has stopped a developer from moving forward with its plan for a major housing development.
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Cambridge, England, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- British and Filipino researchers have found a new bird species on a remote island in the northern Philippines, which is a relative to the familiar Moorhen.
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Last year&#39;s Christmas Bird Count in Missouri turned up a green heron, rarely seen in the state in the winter. Randy Korotev, one of the organizers, has no idea what birds will delight this year&#39;s counters.