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e-Newsletter Oct - Dec 2017
NEWS STORIES | ANNOUNCEMENTS | MEDIA
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CCB NEWS
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Using the sword of Damocles to decapitate The
Migratory Bird Treaty Act
On 22 December as the nation was gearing down
for the festive Christmas holiday, the Department of Interior quietly released
a memo redefining the terms of how the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) will be
enforced. The document, written by the agency’s new Principal Deputy
Solicitor.... Read more...
Moving woodpeckers 3
“She’s a peeker,” I whispered over the radio to
let Bart Paxton know that the bird was looking out of the cavity entrance. Bart
was hidden in camouflage near the base of the cavity tree within The Nature
Conservancy’s Piney Grove Preserve (PGP). We had arrived on site around 4:30pm
to measure the cavity height, position the net pole near the roost tree and set
up for the capture.... Read more...
Virginia Peregrines have Mixed Year in 2017
Virginia supported a known population of 29
pairs of peregrine falcons during the 2017 breeding season (download 2017
report). Two new breeding sites were documented but three long-standing
territories were unoccupied. The population had a relatively high hatching rate
(81%, 56 of 69 eggs hatched) but some losses both before banding... Read
more...
Gender divide in bald eagles
Unlike many familiar bird species, male and
female bald eagles have identical plumage making them difficult to distinguish
in the field, but they are not the same. In the hand, females have distinctly
larger feet and this character alone may be used successfully to separate the
sexes. Females are 30% heavier than males with a nearly 20% longer tarsus
(lower leg bone). Females also have longer... Read more...
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Saving Places – 2017 annual report from CCB
I suspect that nearly all of us have been struck
by the lightning of wildness during some point in our lives. You may have
reached out to one of the world’s great landscapes in search of solitude and it
reached back to you in some completely unexpected way. You may have had a
transformative encounter with some species in a vacant lot that you pass by
every day. These memorable encounters with the wild are a significant part of
our human experience. Our lives are somehow made more complete in the simple
knowledge that such places still exist.
Saving places for bird populations is about
protecting the highest functioning lands, restoring species and habitats on
degraded lands, and finding ways of improving ecological function on our
working lands. Addressing questions and information needs related to these
activities has accounted for a great deal of the research output of The Center
for Conservation Biology over the years. Saving places is the theme of the 2017
annual report for CCB.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
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Peregrine falcons slow to return to Appalachia
Bay Journal
Able to dive after avian prey at a shrieking
200 miles per hour, the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth. Yet
the return of the peregrine to its historic habitat in the western Chesapeake
region has been anything but speedy. fter their numbers were decimated in the
mid-20th century... Read more...
After tracking more than 15,000 birds, “raptor
whisperer" honored with trails at several outdoor areas
The Virginian-Pilot
Reese Lukei, to the rescue! Stories with that
theme poured in, as the rain soaked First Landing State Park on Oct. 29. Kyle
Barbour of False Cape State Park recalled the time they thought a buzzard had
crash-landed in the park.... Read more...
The Carnivores Come to Town
BioScience
It was pitch dark at 5:32 a.m. on 29 April
2016, when an intruder hopped over an electrical substation fence and shut down
the most powerful scientific instrument in the world, the 27-kilometer-long
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva. The miscreant short-circuited an
electrical transformer, cutting power to the LHC, the globe's... Read more...
Bald eagle joins Virginia Beach friends for
cocktail hour
The Virginian-Pilot
There’s never been another cocktail hour quite
like the one that Nancy Dickerson attended last weekend. Dickerson dropped by
Jean Carlston’s home at Atlantic Shores to have a glass of wine with Carlston
and Carlston’s daughter, Ann Kramer, who was visiting from out of town... Read
more...
Southwest Florida Eagle Cam begins sixth season
Pine Island Eagle
The Southwest Florida Eagle Cam began its live
streams Sunday, opening the sixth season with three high definition cameras
place around the nesting site off Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers. The setup,
which allows views worldwide the follow the activities of the eagle matriarch
dubbed... Read more...
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