Bird Studies Canada and Nature Canada have launched a new website for the Canadian Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme. The main goals of the IBA Canada website (www.ibacanada.ca) are to raise awareness of the IBA Programme, to share information about Canada’s IBAs, and to empower more Canadians to reconnect with nature as volunteers for the [...]

I wonder how many of us birders have ever given much thought to the production of a birding magazine? I certainly hadn’t. Someone writes a few articles, someone with a computer makes it look nice, maybe someone else prints it, and somehow it all arrives at my house nicely wrapped. It’s a bit like turning [...]

I’ve recently taken up a voluntary post as Editor of the Great Bustard Group’s magazine ‘Otis’ and hopefully having one person putting what is often described as their ‘distinctive’ style (thanks Martin F) on the articles and design will at the very least give the publication the consistency it’s perhaps been lacking. I’m really uncomfortable [...]

Conservation Measures for Falco eleonorae in Greece is a concise and very interesting website which includes a Google Earth map overlaid with the surprisingly different routes taken by four migrating Eleonora’s Falcons flying from Greece to Madagascar. The site is in English which makes everything a lot easier to follow for most of us I’m [...]

Join BirdLife Malta’s conservation camp to stop illegal killing of birds this spring

11th April – 30th April 2010
 

 
What is Spring Watch Malta about?

Spring Watch Malta is a conservation camp which forms an integral part of BirdLife Malta’s fight against illegal spring hunting. This camp is being organised during the peak spring migration period in Malta [...]

Geoffrey Saliba, the Campaigns coordinator for BirdLife Malta, emailed me this morning asking if 10,000 Birds would be willing to highlight a new initiative to end the illegal hunting of birds in Malta.

I should say so. We’re quite proud of the way we’ve managed to get up the noses of the thugs that masquerade as [...]

We don’t often just re-post press-releases on 10,000 Birds (we prefer to add our own commentary to our blog), but this text from the World Parrot Trust follows on so well from yesterday’s post on National Bird Day that it seems entirely right to do so.
 

Global Coalition Formed to Fight Wild Caught Parrot Trade

After hundreds [...]

When we launched the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club way, way back in November last year - actually that’s only about eight weeks ago but how time has flown! - we couldn’t be sure how the idea would be received by other bloggers and conservationists.

As we said at the time, the actual launch of the [...]

Today is National Bird Day - a day when Born Free USA in coordination with the Avian Welfare Coalition (AWC) calls “on activists around the U.S. to take action on behalf of captive birds by drawing attention to the exploitation of other countries’ native birds by the U.S. pet industry”.

It’s an interesting initiative, but do [...]

2010 - International Year of Biodiversity

Starting on January 11th, 2010 becomes - and I’m sure this will come as a surprise to many of us - the start of the United Nations-designated International Year of Biodiversity (UN General Assembly Resolution 61/203).

2010 is supposed to be the year when commitments and agreements signed in 2001 [...]

As some regular readers may remember back in June I visited the Great Bustard Group’s bustard release-site on Salisbury Plain to talk to the GBG’s Director David Waters.

It was a meeting that quickly ended up with me volunteering for the GBG, and then setting up a blog for them (which has met with mixed [...]

A record 336 species, with nearly all of the seven participating teams recording over 100 species, was recorded on this year’s bird-a-thon in El Salvador. A few years ago breaking 100 species was impressive but with better coverage and knowledge of the local avifauna, more experienced observers, and better equipment, teams can average 125 species [...]

When we launched the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club last month we wrote out a list of FAQs and sent a little wish into the blogosphere which ran:
 

Q) I have a product and would like to be a part of this initiative - who do I discuss this with?

* That’s great. Please [...]

Whatever we think is the cause/s of climate change (carbon/methane emissions, cyclical change that would have happened whether we humans were here or not, a higher being teaching us a much-needed lesson) there surely now can be very little doubt that it is actually happening.

Anecdotal ‘evidence’ like the ‘facts’ that we in the UK don’t [...]

Yesterday I sent a message to my local Yahoo group about the Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust (WWT) membership give-away competition we’re running at the moment. Most (if not all) the members of the group live within an hour’s drive of Slimbridge, the WWT’s HQ, and I figured that the news would be well-received and hopefully [...]

As some of our regular readers may have noticed, we launched a new conservation initiative last week (with two full posts, logos everywhere, Asides in the sidebar - I really hope visitors noticed anyway): the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club, a new way of raising funds for conservation projects that rewards its members while doing it.

It [...]

From BirdLife: “After a 3-year seabird risk assessment that found tuna and swordfish longline fishing has significant impacts on Atlantic seabird populations, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failed to act at a recent meeting in Recife, Brazil”. No, I’m not at all surprised either…

Happy Thanksgiving! While our custom on the fourth Thursday of November is traditionally to trot out some thrilling turkey facts, this may be an auspicious time to ponder the remarkable fortune of Meleagris gallopavo, the Wild Turkey.
You might wonder why I would describe the bird being barbecued, baked, roasted, pan fried, and deep fried by [...]

As we discussed in yesterday’s post (The Search for the Slender-billed Curlew) the Slender-billed Curlew Numenuis tenuirostris is one of 192 bird species designated as Critically Endangered - meaning that it is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. Only one breeding site has ever been confirmed, but the [...]

Yesterday we introduced our latest conservation initiative, the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club and the emails and comments flooded in (well, actually, they didn’t - but it was a Sunday in November, so we’re not disheartened quite yet!).

What we didn’t do yesterday - the post was getting very long as it was - was to [...]