WILDLIFE REPORTS IN THE NEWS
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Wildlife Reports In The News
Wildlife Reports In The News
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Hidden colony of 1.5M penguins discovered on Antarctica's Danger Islands
Article from CBC News-- March 2, 2018
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The documented global population of Adélie penguins just grew by 20 per cent.
A colony of 1.5 million of the creatures has recently been discovered in a remote region of Antarctica called the Danger Islands, according to new research published in the journal Nature.
Link to full article: HERE
Article from CBC News-- March 2, 2018
The documented global population of Adélie penguins just grew by 20 per cent.
A colony of 1.5 million of the creatures has recently been discovered in a remote region of Antarctica called the Danger Islands, according to new research published in the journal Nature.
Link to full article: HERE
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Invasive python devours deer bigger than itself in Florida
Associated Press March 5, 2018
Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: a 3.4-metre-long (11-foot-long) python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
The wildlife biologists tracking the slithery creatures stumbled upon a bloated female snake in Collier Seminole State Park, and when they moved the creature it began regurgitating a white-tailed deer fawn
Link to article: HERE
Warning: Some of the photos in the article are quite graphic.
Associated Press March 5, 2018
Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: a 3.4-metre-long (11-foot-long) python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
The wildlife biologists tracking the slithery creatures stumbled upon a bloated female snake in Collier Seminole State Park, and when they moved the creature it began regurgitating a white-tailed deer fawn
Link to article: HERE
Warning: Some of the photos in the article are quite graphic.
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Starfish ‘armageddon’ as thousands wash up on beach
Metro News, Jen Mills, March 4, 2018
Tens of thousands of the creatures have washed up dead on a beach in Kent, leaving the sand carpeted with them. They are believed to have ended up here due to the ‘beast from the east’ extreme weather snap.
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Metro News, Jen Mills, March 4, 2018
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Feb. 27, 2018
Birds Sleep in Giraffe Armpits, New Photos Reveal
Nighttime camera trap images from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania reveal giraffes acting as "bed and breakfasts," scientists say
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Feb. 27, 2018
Birds Sleep in Giraffe Armpits, New Photos Reveal
Nighttime camera trap images from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania reveal giraffes acting as "bed and breakfasts," scientists say
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Male red squirrels kill offspring of rivals, new University of Alberta study suggestsBy Kaylen Small, CBC News Posted: Mar 15, 2018 9:00 AM MT
Wildlife biologist Jessica Haines of the University of Alberta was conducting routine fieldwork in Yukon in spring 2014 when she heard a commotion in the trees.
A male red squirrel had intruded on a nest of newborn pups, attacked one and killed it — right before her eyes.
"I was excited, on the one hand, but also kind of horrified and fascinated to be seeing this all at once," Haines said.
Haines had observed a phenomenon called sexually selected infanticide, behaviour previously undocumented in red squirrels.
More to the story: HERE
Wildlife biologist Jessica Haines of the University of Alberta was conducting routine fieldwork in Yukon in spring 2014 when she heard a commotion in the trees.
A male red squirrel had intruded on a nest of newborn pups, attacked one and killed it — right before her eyes.
"I was excited, on the one hand, but also kind of horrified and fascinated to be seeing this all at once," Haines said.
Haines had observed a phenomenon called sexually selected infanticide, behaviour previously undocumented in red squirrels.
More to the story: HERE
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Bobcats starving in harsh Nova Scotia winter
In the last week, 4 starving bobcats have been brought to Hope for Wildlife
Video
Carolyn Ray · CBC News
March 16, 2015
Picture from video
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In the last week, 4 starving bobcats have been brought to Hope for Wildlife
Video
Carolyn Ray · CBC News
March 16, 2015
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SATURDAY , MARCH 24, 2018
Wobbly, a yellow-throated warbler, is snug in a Lunenburg County shed chowing down on crickets
Cassie Williams · CBC News
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Wobbly, a yellow-throated warbler, is snug in a Lunenburg County shed chowing down on crickets
Cassie Williams · CBC News
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B.C. rabbits dying from lethal virus that kills in less time than Ebola hits some humans
By Jesse Ferreras
Online Journalist Global News
There’s a lethal disease affecting B.C. rabbits that kills them in less time than it takes for Ebola to surface in certain humans.
The disease is known as rabbit haemorrhagic disease, and its presence was confirmed after tests were conducted on dead feral rabbits in Delta and Nanaimo, the provincial government said in a Wednesday NEWS RELEASE
Insects, too, can carry the virus from one infected animal into another. Scavengers eating a dead animal can also carry the virus.
Read more: HERE
By Jesse Ferreras
Online Journalist Global News
The disease is known as rabbit haemorrhagic disease, and its presence was confirmed after tests were conducted on dead feral rabbits in Delta and Nanaimo, the provincial government said in a Wednesday NEWS RELEASE
Insects, too, can carry the virus from one infected animal into another. Scavengers eating a dead animal can also carry the virus.
Read more: HERE
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Birders' hearts go 'kerthump' after rare sightings in Nova Scotia
A tricoloured heron and great egret have both been spotted in Sambro Head, N.S.
Richard Woodbury · CBC News · Posted: Mar 25, 2018 6:05 PM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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A tricoloured heron and great egret have both been spotted in Sambro Head, N.S.
Richard Woodbury · CBC News · Posted: Mar 25, 2018 6:05 PM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent
CBC News · Posted: Apr 06, 2018
A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick.
Link to full article: HERE
CBC News · Posted: Apr 06, 2018
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Nearly 100 juvenile burrowing owls take first steps into the wild
CBC News · Posted: Apr 27, 2018
Residents of B.C.'s Interior shouldn't be alarmed if they start seeing a bunch of owls flying around in coming days. It's all part of the plan.
The B.C. Wildlife Park — a zoo in Kamloops, B.C. — has been working for decades to save the native population of burrowing owls from extinction. The park released dozens of the birds into the wild Friday.
Full story HERE
CBC News · Posted: Apr 27, 2018
Residents of B.C.'s Interior shouldn't be alarmed if they start seeing a bunch of owls flying around in coming days. It's all part of the plan.
The B.C. Wildlife Park — a zoo in Kamloops, B.C. — has been working for decades to save the native population of burrowing owls from extinction. The park released dozens of the birds into the wild Friday.
Full story HERE
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May 24, 2018
Rare bird appears in Cape Breton
Andrew Rankin (arankin@herald.ca)
Published: 20 hours ago
Updated: 12 hours ago
Creature known for multi-coloured plumage seen at Marble Mountain bird feeder
MARBLE MOUNTAIN, N.S. — David Johnston had to see the painted bunting, widely considered the most beautiful bird in North America, for himself.
With camera in tow, the birder of 50 years wasted no time hopping in his car and hightailing it 40 kilometres away to Cape Breton’s Marble Mountain to see the tiny rainbow-coloured creature.
There it was, as promised, hanging out at a friend’s bird feeder. The trek from his Port Hawkesbury home on Tuesday had paid off.
“Just beautiful,” said Johnston. “First one I’ve seen. A lifer for me.”
RARE SIGHTING
It was a rare sighting, indeed.
The tropical bird, also named Nonpareil for their supposedly unrivalled beauty, was first sighted in Nova Scotia in the mid-1960s and has only been spotted about 60 times since, said Ian McLaren, an emeritus professor of biology at Dalhousie University and a Nova Scotia Bird Society board member.
A few of them are occasionally flung to our shores while en route to their breeding grounds in the southeastern United States.
“They set out from the tropics, subtropics, sometimes across the Gulf, and keep on going beyond their summer range,” said McLaren. “Often they get driven off the southeastern Atlantic coast and caught up by the frequent southwesterly airflow that brings us windy and often wet weather here in spring.”
ANOTHER RARE BIRD SIGHTING
A few days before Johnston’s sighting, another full-plumaged male was recorded on the Northumberland coast, said McLaren.
The painted bunting has only been spotted in Nova Scotia four times in the last decade, according to eBird, a website that tracks bird sightings worldwide.
It’s sightings like these that continue to motivate Johnston — a retired engineer at the town’s pulp and paper mill.
The week before, he’d spotted a leucistic American robin, an uncommon bird defined by its whitish plumage, also in Marble Mountain. Johnston has become the local go-to-guy on birds and contributed to the most recently published Maritime Breeding Bird Atlas.
He said some of the species that have dwindled in Nova Scotia over the past two decades include the olive-sided flycatcher, rusty blackbird and Canada warbler. Others, such as the mourning dove, crows and bald eagles, are on the rise.
“People ask me all the time what birds I find most notable, but to me they all are,” said Johnston. “It’s just natural for me to want to get out in the wilderness and see what’s out there.”
Rare bird appears in Cape Breton
Andrew Rankin (arankin@herald.ca)
Published: 20 hours ago
Updated: 12 hours ago
MARBLE MOUNTAIN, N.S. — David Johnston had to see the painted bunting, widely considered the most beautiful bird in North America, for himself.
With camera in tow, the birder of 50 years wasted no time hopping in his car and hightailing it 40 kilometres away to Cape Breton’s Marble Mountain to see the tiny rainbow-coloured creature.
There it was, as promised, hanging out at a friend’s bird feeder. The trek from his Port Hawkesbury home on Tuesday had paid off.
“Just beautiful,” said Johnston. “First one I’ve seen. A lifer for me.”
RARE SIGHTING
It was a rare sighting, indeed.
The tropical bird, also named Nonpareil for their supposedly unrivalled beauty, was first sighted in Nova Scotia in the mid-1960s and has only been spotted about 60 times since, said Ian McLaren, an emeritus professor of biology at Dalhousie University and a Nova Scotia Bird Society board member.
A few of them are occasionally flung to our shores while en route to their breeding grounds in the southeastern United States.
“They set out from the tropics, subtropics, sometimes across the Gulf, and keep on going beyond their summer range,” said McLaren. “Often they get driven off the southeastern Atlantic coast and caught up by the frequent southwesterly airflow that brings us windy and often wet weather here in spring.”
ANOTHER RARE BIRD SIGHTING
A few days before Johnston’s sighting, another full-plumaged male was recorded on the Northumberland coast, said McLaren.
The painted bunting has only been spotted in Nova Scotia four times in the last decade, according to eBird, a website that tracks bird sightings worldwide.
It’s sightings like these that continue to motivate Johnston — a retired engineer at the town’s pulp and paper mill.
The week before, he’d spotted a leucistic American robin, an uncommon bird defined by its whitish plumage, also in Marble Mountain. Johnston has become the local go-to-guy on birds and contributed to the most recently published Maritime Breeding Bird Atlas.
He said some of the species that have dwindled in Nova Scotia over the past two decades include the olive-sided flycatcher, rusty blackbird and Canada warbler. Others, such as the mourning dove, crows and bald eagles, are on the rise.
“People ask me all the time what birds I find most notable, but to me they all are,” said Johnston. “It’s just natural for me to want to get out in the wilderness and see what’s out there.”
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Record number of songbirds spotted over Eastern Quebec
Bird observatory counts half-a-million warblers flying over St. Lawrence River
Thomas Cobbett Labonté · CBC News · Posted: Jun 02, 2018 8:00 PM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... -1.4687629
Bird observatory counts half-a-million warblers flying over St. Lawrence River
Thomas Cobbett Labonté · CBC News · Posted: Jun 02, 2018 8:00 PM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... -1.4687629
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Over 300 orcas feeding on herring in Norway. Published by Tony Meyer on Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kkjSthVrE
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