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Tri-National Vision for Landbird Conservation now available |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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We are pleased to announce that “Saving Our Shared Birds: Partners in Flight Tri-National Vision for Landbird Conservation” is now available! Government officials, on behalf of international bird conservation leaders from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, just released the report at the XV Annual Trilateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation and Management meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Second breeding season in songbirds |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Here's yet another reason to be working with our Mexican and Central American partners. A paper in PNAS recently documented 5 North American songbirds breeding during stopover in Western Mexico. Who would've though that orioles, vireos, cuckoos, and chats were sneaking
in another breeding season on the way to the wintering grounds?
There's more information about it in this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026152806.htm
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Landbird Habitat Categorization |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
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The PIF Science Committee is also categorizing all North American landbirds into habitat categories. While this has been done for various bird groups in various ways over the years, this will be the first time bird experts in the three countries have produced an agreed-upon classification system. As with the threats assessment, this classification will help identify sectors of the avifauna that share particular conservation issues. As we have already seen, the outcomes are not always as conventional wisdom might have it. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 September 2009 )
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Landbird Threats Assessment |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
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As a part of the Tri-national Vision described above, the PIF Science Committee is conducting a threats assessment of all 900 species of landbirds that regularly breed in Canada, the US and Mexico. The assessment will first address the 221 landbird species of highest priority for conservation action, and will use the threats taxonomy of Salafsky et al. (2009). The first round will consist of scoring only those threats that are likely to be limiting the species. But our intent is to eventually score all 900 species on a 1-5 scale, as PIF has done for other factors in our Species Assessment Database. In preliminary analysis, and probably not surprisingly, the conversion of habitat for the production of agricultural crops is the #1 threat facing North American landbirds. However, many other threats, such as timber harvest, livestock grazing, and residential development, are affecting large numbers of species. Once completed, this will be the first systematic threats assessment of all North American landbirds. |
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Painted Bunting trapping in late 1800s |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
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Looks like trapping Painted Buntings for the caged bird trade was common even in the late 1800. This quote comes from "Birds and Nature, A Monthly Serial, January-June, 1887". There is no author listed, only the copyright: "by A. W. Mumford, 1900" courtesy of John Gerwin from the NC Science Museum: THE NONPAREIL ".....Thousands of these birds are trapped for the cage, and sold annually to our northern people and also in Europe. They are comparatively cheap, even in our northern bird markets, as most of them are exchanged for our Canaries and imported birds that cannot be sent directly to the south on account of climatic conditions". |
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Conservation planning 
