Grouse unlikely to find shelter on endangered list
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A bird at the center of a controversy that impacts the nation&#39;s multibillion-dollar energy industry should not be included on the endangered species list, a panel of federal wildlife officials has concluded.
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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.
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More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International.
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The federal government has decided not to list the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, a Colorado senator announced Thursday.
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A government study has concluded the greater sage grouse is not an endangered species, a finding ranching and oil and gas interests in the West had lobbied hard for, a congressional spokesman said on Friday.
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By Matt Weiser< Sacramento Bee  The bald eagle, America's signature bird, is likely to be removed from  the endangered-species list within two weeks, after one of the most  successful conservation efforts in history.
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While biologists and politicians fight over whether the greater sage grouse should be labeled an endangered species, 10 Western states allow hunters to take aim at the reclusive, ground-dwelling bird.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird whose rare trait of nesting in old-growth forests made it a factor in logging battles in the U.S. Northwest, is also declining dramatically in Alaska and Canada, where most of the birds live, according to a U.S. government review.
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Some might think fewer rodents would be a good thing, but scientists are concerned about the dwindling populations of two small fury creatures on New Mexico's list of endangered mammals.
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Federal biologists said Friday that endangered species protections are not warranted for the greater sage grouse, a bird of the arid sagebrush territory sprawling across eleven Western states, including Oregon.
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A species of heron which has not been seen in Greater London since 1866 is spotted once again.
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Some wildlife experts want to make the greater sage grouse an endangered species icon. Its Western habitat, unfortunately, is atop some of the nation&#39;s largest untapped natural gas fields.
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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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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--Wildlife activists say recent reports of bald eagles and Canada lynx being caught in hunters' traps provide additional ammunition to a lawsuit that aims to ban trapping in parts of Maine inhabited by the federally protected species.
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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.