Concern over rare duck's decline
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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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One in 10 of all bird species is likely to disappear by the end of the century, according to a study published today. A further 15 per cent of birds could be on the brink
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Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are getting an education in the sex lives of a rare sea duck species that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska.
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The Chinese crested tern, a rare sea bird whose eggs are prized by some as a delicacy, is likely to be extinct in five years if authorities do not step up protection efforts, a conservation group said Friday.
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The survival of some Iowa bird species is threatened, primarily because of habitat loss, according to a group dedicated to the conservation of wild birds.
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Worldwide efforts to protect endangered waterbirds are falling short as industrial and urban development eat away at their habitats, and hunting and pollution take their toll, according to a book released Monday.
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Two rare species of wild bird are doing well in Scotland despite falling numbers in the rest of Europe.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Officials still don't know why as many as 2,500 mallard ducks have died in a bizarre cluster along a southeastern Idaho creek bed, but preliminary test results indicate a bacterial or fungal infection could be to blame, a state game official said late Thursday.
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Nearly a third of North America&#39;s birds are in significant decline, signaling degrading environmental conditions and leaving some Florida species hard-hit, according to a report released this week.
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By Brian Sargent, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 3--An Oklahoma expert on bald eagles said Friday it would be a good decision to remove the bird from the federal government's list of endangered species.   ------   A federal judge ordered last year the U.S.
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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Heathland species are in danger of extinction because of poor habitat, conservationists warn.
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has told the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District that avian flu (bird flu) has been ruled out as the cause of death of about 375 ducks at Metro's treatment plant since early January.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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The next century definitely will not be for the birds as the changing world takes a toll on many species. By 2100, about 10 percent of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting
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A report released recently by the National Audubon Society indicates a number of bird species are decreasing in number all over the country.