Green Options » migratory birds http://greenoptions.com/tag/migratory-birds Posts tagged 'migratory birds' Thu, 01 May 2008 18:41:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Alberta’s Oilsands: Now a Murderer http://ecoscraps.com/2008/05/01/albertas-oilsands-natures-murderer/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/05/01/albertas-oilsands-natures-murderer/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 18:41:37 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/05/01/albertas-oilsands-natures-murderer/ A duck in water. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Sujit Kumar.)If you haven’t yet read the heartbreaking news or seen the tragic images, here’s another reason to oppose Canada’s oilsands development: On Monday, some 500 migrating ducks landed in a waste pond at a Syncrude site in Alberta … and only a handful survived long enough to be rescued and, with luck, restored to health.

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New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds.

Most ecologists had assumed that common nest predators in urban areas – such as house cats and raccoons – were destroying eggs or killing young birds in greater numbers than in rural areas. In reality, it seems…they just don’t like urban areas.

Photo courtesy : Science Daily

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