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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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) has banned sales of a rare Asian dolphin. Environmentalists say the move is necessary to save the Irrawaddy dolphin, whose numbers are thought to be as low as 1,000 in the wild.
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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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A controversial annual cull of hedgehogs in Scotland may be about to end as wildlife groups withdraw support.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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A decision announced Friday to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species still leaves open the possibility the approximately 1,000 birds remaining in Washington could be listed.
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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.
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There&#39;s a reason why Arkansans haven&#39;t seen as many meadowlarks in recent years. The National Audubon Society says there aren&#39;t as many of the birds around as there once were.
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More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why.
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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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One of the rarest birds on Earth came closer to being wiped out &#151; if not already extinct &#151; with the death of one of the last three believed to exist, officials said.
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SALMON, Idaho  - Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
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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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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 9--More than a million tiny blue birds once sang and nested in the tops of Appalachian forests. Now there may be only 500,000 cerulean warblers left.
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The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say.
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They say as many as 122 species may have become extinct since 1980 and a third of known amphibians face oblivion. Naturalists describe the creatures as sensitive indicators of the health of the wider environment.
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An extremely rare Hawaiian bird has died in captivity, possibly marking the extinction of its species only 31 years after it was first discovered.