"The birds, which weigh just 25g (0.8oz), travel from sub-Saharan Africa to their Arctic breeding grounds. "
"The results show that angry crows don't just recognize individual tormentors, but they share that information with friends and family. Most notably: They remember it for years and years and years -- even when the person in the caveman mask appears far away from the scene of the original crime."
"He said, “I never did like that bird.”-;)
"Scottish lairds and grouse moor owners face £5,000 fines or jail terms if they allow their gamekeepers to illegally kill birds of prey, under tough new measures tabled today.The powers would, for the first time in the UK, make landowners directly liable for wildlife crimes committed by their employees, after an upsurge in cases where rare birds of prey have been deliberately killed to protect grouse stocks on shooting estates."
"ST. ALBERT, Alta. — A judge has found oilsands giant Syncrude Canada guilty on federal and provincial charges stemming from the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks at a toxic waste pond in northern Alberta two years ago."
-this is where i have been spending the holidays, really nice!
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-save the condors!!!!
Cheers to the Wild ARC! and the folks that rescued the owl too!
-a buzzard attacks a lawyer!! justice!! ;)
-good luck to the other two!!
"In the bird world, an American kestrel is considered a "top gun," since this smallest member of the falcon family can easily reach aerial diving speeds of 96 km/h when locked on to its prey -- which, by the way, seldom escapes."
"Keepers at Germany's Bremerhaven zoo couldn't get two penguin parents to take care of their egg, so they're trying an experiment — they gave the egg to a gay male penguin couple."
-people like this truly make me angry!
"The coastal waters of the Great Bear Rainforest in Northern British Columbia, home to hundreds of salmon spawning rivers, grey whale migratory routes, the feeding grounds for orca and humpback whales. It is an area teaming with life and steeped in the culture of BC's coastal First Nations. For over 35 years these waters have been protected from the threat of oil spills by a ban on oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast."