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August 1: Ketchikan, Alaska: While working in Alaska's southern panhandle on a consulting project in the Tongass National Rainforest, an REF
staff member copied this display photo of a bald eagle and a black bear. This is not a photo-shopped image. It is just one of the remarkable things
that the wilds of Alaska still offer anyone who takes the time to look.

Asian Vulture Decline

Researchers have isolated the cause of Asian' vulture populations plummeting due to an anti-inflammatory drug administered to cattle. Vultures scavenging on
carcasses ingest enough of the drug which leads to kidney failure. Another canary in our chemical coalmine- take note Just click...

Predators Promoting Evolution

In another experiment lasting two years scientists have shown that you can watch evolution in action in real time on a macro scale. Watching evolution in action
on a micro scale goes on everywhere and is confirmed very quickly by looking at the world of viruses and bacteria as they adapt to humanity's arsenal of drugs
as these microscopic creatures evolve immunities to an ever evolving pharmacopeia. Seeing this same evolutionary process on a macro scale is a little more
difficult, but still available to careful observers. Just click...

The Benefits of Global Warming

Yep, that's right, when you look at the theory of global warming, then look further down the path and you will invariably see some remarkable benefits for all
mankind. But you must be someone who is not terrified of nature's one constant: change. Evolution is the process of organisms adapting to a changing environment.
Just click...

Denver's Cheesman Park Peregrine

Denver, CO: July 2, 2006-Urban bird watchers looking for peregrines in Denver need to pay attention to all possible roosting sites. This building is
located at 13th and Williams on the north side of Cheesman Park. The site is used for roosting and has been in use for several years that we know.
The whitewash (fecal discharge) quickly alerts you to the presence of these speedy raptors. We will be attempting to get some better close-ups of the
bird- stay tuned.

Tracking Peregrines and Burrowing Owls by Their Isotopic Signatures

Trapping and banding migrating raptors is one way for researchers to know what is going on with raptor populations, but a novel approach provides even
better information. Just click...

Fish Study Reveals Fallacies of Trophy Hunting

Removing the largest fish from the oceans results in the diminishing of those traits in the remaining fish stocks. Over fishing, much of it in the U.S. due to
federally subsidized programs, not only decreases fish populations, it also contributes to the overall reduction of strong, large, viable individuals (trophies)
who pass on their traits to future generations. Duh! Think of that the next time you are looking for a trophy animal, instead of something good to eat. Are
you hunting to feed your ego, or to feed your family? Just click...

Peregrine Falcons Face Another Chemical Threat

Peregrine falcons appear to be cursed. Once endangered, now not, and maybe again, this beautifully swift predator appears to have high concentrations of a
popular fire-retardant in its eggs a Swedish research study has revealed. Just click...

Radar Activated Peregrine Falcons

Large oil filled pits have always attracted birds to land in them and get mired in the goo, as the oil reflects the sky and looks like a pond of water. Researchers
have now demonstrated that radar activated falcon decoys and canons will keep the birds from landing in the mess Just click...

Predators Keep World Green

Scientists have just released experimental results that confirm the "Green World Hypothesis" posited in 1960 by Nelson Hairston, Frederick Smith and Lawrence
Slobodkin. Back when the theory was proposed, there was no way to test the concept in the real world, but when a valley was flooded in Venezuela, the opportunity
was recognized by the 3 scientists, and their results have just been published. Just click...

A Saint For Falcons

Our brand new program introduces audiences to the the various aspects of one of the oldest field sports in history.
Falconry, Then & Now, will also introduce you to the great story that brought a Saint into this remarkable practice of art and science. Find out more
about whywe are the leaders in promoting environmental literacy.

Their Faces Tell Our Story

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4th graders at Elbert County Charter School studying the medieval period enjoy learning about falconry in one of REF's new programs:
Falconry, Then & Now. Students were introduced to four raptors used in falconry in historic times, and today. Program presenter is REF's Curator
of Raptors, Anne Price. Anne is one of the very few women Master Falconers in the world as well as a biologist, and author. REF provides the best
programming to promote environmental literacy. Experience the raptor experience yourself, call us today.

Lessons Civilizations Don't Want To Learn

The failure of all of our sophisticated technology and management systems to insulate us from Rita and Katrina, as well as the other elemental forces
intruding into our lives, reminds me to re-acquaint myself with the prescient words of Richard M. Weaver written in 1948. Both sides of the political
spectrum need to grasp the truth of Weaver's wisdom. Sadly they will not, as the political body has decided on a course of virulent parasitism, instead
of honest work. Lottery living is the rule and something for nothing is its operating principle. " Let us consider an ordinary man living in Megalopolis.
The Stereopticon has so shielded him from sight of the abysses that he conceives the world to be a fairly simple machine, which, with a bit of intelligent
tinkering, can be made to go. And going, it turns out comforts and whatever other satisfactions his demagogic leaders have told him he is entitled to.
But the mysteries are always intruding, so that even the best designed machine has been unable to effect a continuous operation. No less than his ancestors,
he finds himself up against toil and trouble. Since this was not nominated in the bond, he suspects evildoers and takes the childish course of blaming
individuals for things inseparable from the human condition. The truth is that he has never been brought to see what it is to be a man. That man is the
product of discipline and of forging, that he really owes thanks for the pulling and tugging that enable him to grow-this concept left the manuals of
education with the advent of Romanticism. This citizen is now the child of indulgent parents who pamper his appetites and inflate his egotism until he is
unfitted for struggle of any kind.

The spoiling of man seems always to begin when urban living predominates over rural. After man has left the countryside to shut himself up in vast piles of
stone, after he has lost what Sir Thomas Browne called pudor rusticus, after he has come to depend on a complicated system of human exchange for
his survival, he becomes forgetful of the overriding mystery of creation. Such is the normal condition of the deracine. An artificial environment causes him
to lose sight of the great system not subject to man's control. Undoubtedly this circumstance is a chief component of bourgeois mentality, as even the
etymology of "bourgeois" may remind us. It is the city-dweller, solaced by man-made comforts, who resents the very thought that there exist might forces
beyond his understanding; it is he who wishes insulation and who berates and persecutes the philosophers, the prophets and mystics, the wild men out of the
desert, who keep before him the theme of human frailty.

It is part of his desiccation to substitute for the primal feeling of relatedness a false self-sufficiency. If he could continue to realize the presence of something
greater than self and see the virtue of subordinating self to communal enterprise--that is, see the virtue and not simply respond to coercion--he might remain
unspoiled even in the city. But, when competition to be considered "equal" sets in, there ensues the severance which is individualism. It has proved as true
of the spirit as of the flesh that the city renders sterile."

Humans, at their inception in the womb begin their lives as parasites. If humans are to survive this inherent condition, they learn to give something back to the
host that nurtures them. If they fail to give back at least us much as they take, the results are simple to compile, and the history of prior civilizations is more
than adequate evidence that humans fail this simple arithmetic lesson more often than not. Ecology is the attempt for science to enable a realistic perception
of this primal human pattern. Ecology reminds us of our relationships to the larger and smaller world, and the simple fact that there is no "free lunch," despite
the promises of both political parties. Peter Reshetniak

REF Into The Kremlin And All Over Russia

The oldest hunting and fishing (sportsmen's) magazine continuously published in the world, pictured above, in the August, 2005 issue featured a story
about Anne Price, REF's Curator of Raptors, and Master Falconer. Take a look at some of the pages of this famous magazine, known to be
regular reading in the Kremlin at the highest levels and by all outdoor enthusiasts in Russia and beyond. Not only does Anne get 4 pages plus, in full
color devoted to her passion for raptors and falconry, but her work with REF is also captured in this exclusive story.. just click.

REF In Alaska: Another First, Again

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August 27th, 2005 Hoonah, Alaska: After several years of preparation, research and consultation, four of Raptor Education Foundation's staff
took six of its raptors and made the long and complicated journey to Chichagof Island, Alaska's 3rd largest, located in the panhandle of America's
wildest state. Exclusive programs, created for presentation at the Huna Native Theater and Museum were the end goal of this multi-year journey.
Working with several different entities, including one of Alaska's oldest Tlingit settlements, REF created a special program script. It incorporates both
science and spirit to illustrate the relationship of Alaska's native people to wildlife. Icy Strait Point is the first private island destination for Alaskan
cruise ship visitors, and represents a new effort to convey a sense of what Alaska was and is really like, without the influx of thousands of tourists,
and the myriad of jewelry stores found in the typical ports most cruise ship passengers visit. Guest responses to REF's one hour programs have been
very positive; visitors to Icy Strait Point have their first opportunities to see Alaska's rarest eagle, the golden, from just inches away, along with many of
Alaska's native raptor species. See more of this story, just click...

Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years. But that notion has increasingly been called into question as crows and parrots, among other birds, have shown what appears to be behavior as intelligent as that of chimpanzees. The clash of simple brain and complex behavior has led some neuroscientists to create a new map of the avian brain.

Today, in the journal Nature Neuroscience Reviews, an international group of avian experts is issuing what amounts to a manifesto. Nearly everything written in anatomy textbooks about the brains of birds is wrong, they say. The avian brain is as complex, flexible and inventive as any mammalian brain, they argue, and it is time to adopt a more accurate nomenclature that reflects a new understanding of the anatomies of bird and mammal brains.

"Names have a powerful influence on the experiments we do and the way we think," said Dr. Erich D.Jarvis, a neuroscientist at Duke University and a leader of the Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium. "Old terminology has hindered scientific progress."

The consortium of 29 scientists from six countries met for seven years to develop new, more accurate names for structures in both avian and mammalian brains. For example, the bird's seat of intelligence or its higher brain is now termed the pallium.

"The correction of terms is a great advance," said Dr. Jon Kaas, a leading expert in neuroanatomy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who did not participate in the consortium. "It's hard to get scientists to agree about anything."

Scientists have come to agree that birds are indeed smart, but those who study avian intelligence differ on how birds got that way. Experts, including those in the consortium, are split into two warring camps. One holds that birds' brains make the same kinds of internal connections as do mammalian brains and that intelligence in both groups arises from these connections. The other holds that bird intelligence evolved through expanding an old part of the mammal brain and using it in new ways, and it questions how developed that intelligence is.

"There are still puzzles to be solved," said Dr. Peter Marler, a leading authority on bird behavior at the University of California, Davis, who is not part of the consortium. But the realization that one can study mammal brains by using bird brains, he said, "is a revolution." "I think that birds are going to replace the white rat as the favored subject for studying functional neuroanatomy," he added.

The reanalysis of avian brains gives new credibility to many behaviors that seem odd coming from presumably dumb birds. Crows not only make hooks and spears of small sticks to carry on foraging expeditions, some have learned to put walnuts on roads for cars to crack. African gray parrots not only talk, they have a sense of humor and make up new words. Baby songbirds babble like human infants, using the left sides of their brains.

Avian brains got their bad reputation a century ago from the German neurobiologist Ludwig Edinger, known as the father of comparative anatomy. Edinger believed that evolution was linear, Dr. Jarvis said. Brains evolved like geologic strata. Layer upon layer, the brains evolved from old to new, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals. By Edinger's standards, fish were the least intelligent. Humans, created in God's image, were the most intelligent. Edinger cut up all kinds of vertebrate brains, noting similarities and differences, Dr.Jarvis said.

In mammals, the bottom third of the brain contained neurons organized in clusters. The top two-thirds of the brain, called the neocortex, consisted of a flat sheet of cells with six layers. This new brain, the seat of higher intelligence, lay over the old brain, the seat of instinctual behaviors. In humans, the neocortex grew so immense that it was forced to assume folds and fissures, so as to fit inside the skull.

Birds' brains, in contrast, were composed entirely of clusters. Edinger concluded that without a six-layered cortex, birds could not possibly be intelligent. Rather, their brains were fully dedicated to instinctual behaviors.

This view persisted through the 20th century and is still found in most biology textbooks, said Dr. Harvey Karten, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the consortium, whose research has long challenged the classic view.

There is a bird way and a mammal way to create intelligence, Dr. Karten said. One uses clusters. One uses flat sheet cells in six layers. Each exploits the basic design of having a lower brain and a higher brain with mutual connections.

In the 1960's, Dr. Karten carried out experiments using new techniques to trace brain wiring and identify the paths taken by various brain chemicals. In humans, a chemical called dopamine is found mostly in lower brain areas, called basal ganglia, which consist of clusters.

Using the same tracing techniques in birds, Dr. Karten found that dopamine also projected primarily to lower clusters and no higher. Later studies show numerous similarities between clusters in the mammalian brain and lower clusters in the avian brain. Experts now agree that the two regions are evolutionarily older structures that lie underneath a newer mantle.

Where the experts divide is on the question of the upper clusters in a bird's brain. Agreed, they are not primitive basal ganglia. But where did they come from? How did they evolve? What is their function?

Dr. Karten and others in the consortium think these clusters are directly analogous to layers in the mammalian brain. They migrate from similar embryonic precursors and perform the same functions.

For example, in mammals, sensory information - sights, sounds, touch -flows through a lower brain region called the thalamus and enters the cortex at the fourth layer in the six-layered cortex.

In birds, sensory information flows through the thalamus and enters specific clusters that are functionally equivalent to the fourth layer. In this view, other clusters perform functions done by different layers in the mammal brain.

A second group, including Dr. Georg Striedter of the University of California, Irvine, a consortium member, believes that upper clusters in the avian brain are an elaboration of two mammalian structures - the claustrum and the amygdala. In this view, these structures look alike in bird and mammal embryos. But in birds they grow to enormous proportions and have evolved entirely new ways to support intelligence.

In mammals, the amygdala is involved in emotional systems, Dr.Striedter said. "But birds use it for integrating information," he said. "It's not emotional anymore. "Meanwhile, examples of brilliance in birds continue to flow from fields and laboratories worldwide.

Dr. Nathan Emery and Dr. Nicola Clayton at the University of Cambridge in England study comparisons between apes and corvids - crows, jays, ravens and jackdaws. Relative to its body size, the crow brain is the same size as the chimpanzee brain.

Everyone knows apes use simple tools like twigs, Dr. Emery said, selecting different ones for different purposes. But New Caledonian crows create more complex tools with their beaks and feet. They trim and sculpture twigs to fashion hooks for fetching food. They make spears out of barbed leaves, probing under leaf detritus for prey.

In a laboratory, when a crow named Betty was given metal wires of various lengths and a four-inch vertical pipe with food at the bottom, she chose a four-inch wire, made a hook and retrieved the food.

Apes and corvids are highly social. One explanation for intelligence is that it evolved to process and use social information - who is allied with whom, who is related to whom and how to use this information for deception. They also remember.

Clark nutcrackers can hide up to 30,000 seeds and recover them up to six months later. Nutcrackers also hide and steal. If they see another bird watching them as they cache food, they return later, alone, to hide the food again. Some scientists believe this shows a rudimentary theory of mind - understanding that another bird has intentions and beliefs.

Magpies, at an earlier age than any other creature tested, develop an understanding of the fact that when an object disappears behind a curtain, it has not vanished.

At a university campus in Japan, carrion crows line up patiently at the curb waiting for a traffic light to turn red. When cars stop, they hop into the crosswalk, place walnuts from nearby trees onto the road and hop back to the curb. After the light changes and cars run over the nuts, the crows wait until it is safe and hop back out for the food.

Pigeons can memorize up to 725 different visual patterns, and are capable of what looks like deception. Pigeons will pretend to have found a food source, lead other birds to it and then sneak back to the true source.

Parrots, some researchers report, can converse with humans, invent syntax and teach other parrots what they know. Researchers have claimed that Alex, an African gray, can grasp important aspects of number, color concepts, the difference between presence and absence, and physical properties of objects like their shapes and materials. He can sound out letters the same way a child does.

Like mammals, some birds are naturally smarter than others, Dr. Jarvis said. But given their range of behaviors, birds are extraordinarily flexible in their intelligence quotients. "They're right up there with hominids," he said.

One Picture Tells It All...

Fighting the West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus-Straight From the Researchers

August 21, 2003- We get many calls and e-mails concerning WNV, and the editors hope this posting will be helpful to many in the general public looking for more
detailed information about wild bird populations, and the spread of the virus. Denver Zoo reports mammals and birds dying at their facility.

Here are some considerations regarding WNV and bird deaths.

1. Most bird testing is done by State Health Departments that are conducting surveillance for mapping WNV activity. That is the case in Colorado. The public is generally encouraged to contact their local health department (county health department), which cooperates with the state health department by collecting some of the dead birds and forwarding them to the state lab for testing. With the current high level of WNV activity in Colorado, many counties are no longer collecting birds because they no longer need to map where WNV activity is occurring in the county. In some counties (like Larimer, for example) transmission is intense in some parts of the county, but information is lacking for other parts of the county, so some dead birds are tested. However, only corvids (crow family) are tested because testing crows is a sensitive way of tracking the virus.

2.Testing non-corvids is a less sensitive way of tracking the virus,
but there is little data for many species. I have a research project at CDC where we are accepting birds (including corvids) for WNV testing. All of the employees at CDC's Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases were informed of this project, but perhaps some of the receptionists forgot about it. If you have a bird that you are willing to send to me in Fort Collins or bring to me, then you should ask for me by name when you call CDC, or call me directly. I can be reached at 970-221-6496 or 970-567-4970. The results of this study will not be available until after the transmission season. When a report is prepared, perhaps I will share a summary in this forum.

3. Regarding whether birds are still dying from WNV, the answer is most definitely "YES". I gather that case loads at all the wildlife
rehabilitation centers have increased. In many cases, staffs at these
facilities are probably overwhelmed. However, don't expect to see huge numbers of dead birds. The great majority of birds that are infected over the course of the summer do survive the infection. Generally, the clusters of dead birds that result form WNV infection are spread out over time and space, so these clusters are likely to go unnoticed by most observers.

4. In response to the question about insecticide spraying and its effect on birds, the actual impact of spraying on bird populations is not well known. However, if the insecticide products are used properly, they should not have direct impacts on bird populations. The lack of insects can have an impact on bird populations, but at this time of year, birds are more willing to move to new territories where food can be found. I personally doubt that mosquito spraying will have a significant impact, in part because the spray schedules usually do not totally wipe out insects, but rather reduce the number of insects. To prove my point, you will notice that mosquitoes don't totally disappear after the spray truck goes by, or even the spray helicopter. Given the very high levels of WNV transmission risk in some counties, spraying insecticide is warranted for public health reasons. It may also protect more birds from fatal WNV infections than it hurts. In general, there is much more insecticide used on a daily basis in households and cropland than there is for mosquito control, so I don't think the additional applications for mosquito control will have a large impact on birds.

I hope this answers some people's questions.

Nick Komar
Fort Collins

Many people are calling about
the non-DEET mosquito repellant
being tested by our facility.
The following links will take you
directly to the source:
FASST Products
Waterbury Companies
EES

While we have not been able to
verify the efficacy of Geraniol based
repellants in our context, REF has reviewed the
research and talked with Professor Butler
at the University of Florida about several
concerns we had related to our birds.
Professor Butler provided those answers,
which then led us to use the Geraniol based
products as a safe way to repel the main
vector of the virus: mosquitoes. Professor
Butler's research verifies that the geraniol oil
works as well as DEET based products
on humans.

Considering that Geraniol based products
do not have the unhealthy side-effects of DEET,
REF is glad to share this information with all,
and encourages people to try it for themselves
if they want a safer alternative.

Our field trials of the Geraniol based repellant
will take another 60 days to evaluate. We have
also supplied several of the units to the Air Force
Academy's falcon mascot program
to test, along with one falconer on the west
coast.

The three companies listed above, generously donated
a variety of product to assist us in our battle against
the mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. To see
our modifications to waterproof the battery powered
dispersal unit, just click.

Visit BugBuffer.com to get non-toxic mosquito protection

Driving For Wildlife

You can race for the cure or walk for hunger, to name only a few things many of us are doing for our community's sake. Find out what your car could be doing
besides using up natural resources at faster or slower rates?

Another Top Review for Raptor Book

Brian Millsap, President, Raptor Research Foundation, and recently appointed Chief of the Migratory Bird Division, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
offers his perspective on our new book as a scientist, biologist and a father. "This is the only children�s book I�ve seen that does a comprehensive job
portraying the richness and diversity of birds of prey that exist in North America." Read the whole review.

Kitty Cat Kills Eagle

Yes, Eagles are still getting poisoned, and the drug companies responsible, like Ft. Dodge Animal Health, are doing nothing to implement any
meaningful plans proposed by REF years ago. Read the story, see the pictures on our web site devoted to solving this issue.

New Products for Anyone Wanting Cool Raptor Images

A new assortment of products with some of our exclusive raptor images, and predatory philosophy is available with our online partner, CafePress.com.
Just click on, and you can see what we have to offer. Stay tuned as the image line expands.

Another reasoned review of the remarkable attack on the Skeptical Environmentalist. But don't go here if you want the standard litany of the sky is falling.
As the story develops it get better...read this. January, 2004 Professor Lomborg, author of the Skeptical Environmentalist is vindicated....

Great Raptor Gifts

Global Warming: How, When, and Why It Got Started, and Where Is It Now...

If you are devoted to the popular perception of the global warming hypothesis, then don't read this. If you cannot imagine that global warming could
possibly have religious motives, then don't read this. But, if you are curious enough, we are pleased to provide the links above, and the following link to
an abridged speech about the Kyoto Protocols and global warming delivered at Hillsdale College on February 5, 2002 by Dr. Sallie Baliunas,
Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Just remember, many of the same people were talking about Global Cooling not too
long ago. Brrrrrrrr.

Environmental Truths

In 1997, Mr. Lomborg, a statistician at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark decided to challenge the work of Julian Simon who was The economist
most environmentalists loved to hate. But as Mr. Lomborg began his research into the state of the environment, he discovered that Julian Simon's claims
were generally supported while those of "doom sayers" like Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and Lester Brown of the World Watch Institute,
were not. In fact the latter's claims were consistently just flat out wrong.

What's even more telling about Mr. Lomborg's new book to be published next month in English by Cambridge University Press, is that the author once
held what he calls "left-wing Greenpeace views." He was typical of most of the Greenies out there then and now. For a more in-depth review of Mr.
Lomborg's book, just click.. And even more still.

If you care about what your children learn about the environment then you should make sure they get a balanced perspective, which is a rarity in the media
and with many environmental organizations. For more about Julian Simon and REF's tribute to his work, just click.

If you want your children to develop their Environmental Literacy skills, then call on REF. We deliver Elemental Experiences.

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Tongass Stand Off

Asian Vulture Decline

Predators Promoting Evolution

The Benefits of Global Warming

Denver's Cheesman Park Peregrine

Tracking Peregrines and Burrowing Owls by Their Isotopic Signatures

Fish Study Reveals Fallacies of Trophy Hunting

Peregrine Falcons Face Another Chemical Threat

Radar Activated Peregrine Falcons

Predators Keep World Green

A Saint For Falcons

Their Faces Tell Our Story

Lessons Civilizations Don't Want To Learn

REF Into The Kremlin And All Over Russia

REF In Alaska: Another First, Again

Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

One Picture Tells It All...

Fighting the West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus-Straight From the Researchers

Driving For Wildlife

Another Top Review for Raptor Book

Kitty Cat Kills Eagle

New Products for Anyone Wanting Cool Raptor Images

Great Raptor Gifts

Global Warming: How, When, and Why It Got Started, and Where Is It Now...

Environmental Truths

Last updated: February 20, 2010-Page Three: Aged News EcoNews of Note, it's the best place for breaking news

Tongass Stand Off

Asian Vulture Decline

Predators Promoting Evolution

The Benefits of Global Warming

Denver's Cheesman Park Peregrine

Tracking Peregrines and Burrowing Owls by Their Isotopic Signatures

Fish Study Reveals Fallacies of Trophy Hunting

Peregrine Falcons Face Another Chemical Threat

Radar Activated Peregrine Falcons

Predators Keep World Green

A Saint For Falcons

Their Faces Tell Our Story

Lessons Civilizations Don't Want To Learn

REF Into The Kremlin And All Over Russia

REF In Alaska: Another First, Again

Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

One Picture Tells It All...

Fighting the West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus-Straight From the Researchers

Driving For Wildlife

Another Top Review for Raptor Book

Kitty Cat Kills Eagle

New Products for Anyone Wanting Cool Raptor Images

Great Raptor Gifts

Global Warming: How, When, and Why It Got Started, and Where Is It Now...

Environmental Truths

Last updated: February 20, 2010-Page Three: Aged News

EcoNews of Note, it's the best place for breaking news

Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE