Rat team airlifted to Scots island to save birds
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rat catchers flew to a remote Scottish island on Tuesday for fear the rodents might come ashore from a wrecked Spanish trawler and devastate vulnerable sea bird nests.
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As part of continuing efforts to save the endangered whooping crane, costumed scientists today began leading 18 of the birds on a 1,200-mile (1,900-kilometer) annual migration south for the winter.
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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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POCATELLO, Idaho - Firefighters resuscitated four cats and an albino rat from a charred apartment in southeastern Idaho.  The animals received oxygen through a special mask designed for small animals that the department got two years ago.
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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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A rescue operation has been launched off the west of Scotland to help the crew of a Latvian cargo ship in trouble in heavy seas.
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By Tom Uhlenbrock  Editor's note  This story was written before 17 whooping cranes were killed in severe Florida storms recently. The birds were part of Operation Migration, a project to restore a migrating flock from Wisconsin to Florida.
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Fifty-seven people were airlifted to safety last night after a series of landslides caused by torrential rainstorms trapped them in their vehicles in the Lochearnhead area, north of Stirling in central Scotland.
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The first sea eagles to soar over the east coast of Scotland for 200 years are due to touch down at RAF Kinloss.
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Concerns are raised that the trawler which ran aground on St Kilda could carry rats, posing a threat to sea birds.
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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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Authorities in Malaysia's capital have ushered in the Year of the Rat by offering a bounty on rats to help fight the city's age-old rodent problem, a newspaper said on Saturday.
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A NEW bird species, which is believed to be found nowhere else in the world, has been discovered on the remote island of Calayan, 70 km north of Luzon.
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A Scots-based rescue team is on stand-by to travel to southern Asia after 6,000 people died in an earthquake.
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Wildlife experts from around 60 countries gathered in Scotland Monday to push for an agreement to help save rare, migratory birds of prey.
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Today, a group of tired yet satisfied citizen scientists will be busy tabulating the results from the annual Christmas Bird Count that was conducted Saturday on Hilton Head Island and in greater Bluffton and Sun City.
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The Royal Air Force said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas.