Stephen Moss
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The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more (opens the original)
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Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally I have to confess that I rarely enjoy birding in montane cloud forests. The birds that live in these mountainous, cool and humid habitats are masters of disguise, usually passing themselves off as a leaf or other form of foliage. But if I want to see antpittas – elusive, ground-dwelling birds that rarely show themselves – then I have no ch
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more - AOL (opens the original)
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I have to confess that I rarely enjoy birding in montane cloud forests. The birds that live in these mountainous, cool and humid habitats are masters of disguise, usually passing themselves off as a leaf or other form of foliage. But if I want to see antpittas – elusive, ground-dwelling birds that rarely show themselves – then I have no choice. So, on a cool, cloudy morning my guide, Juan Carlos Crespo, Fredy Ramón Castillo, a local ranger, and I are standing on a steep, muddy path close to Tapi
Birdwatch: the avian equivalent of a catwalk model, blue cranes are under threat (opens the original)
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Numbers of the exquisitely graceful species are falling amid loss of food supply and habitat Few birds are quite as elegant as the blue crane. As I watched a pair feeding alongside a busy road in South Africa, against the rather incongruous backdrop of a herd of cows, I was struck by their sheer beauty. With a slender body, curved neck, long legs, elongated tail plumes and a subtle, dove-grey plumage, this bird really is the avian equivalent of a catwalk model. But not all is well for the blue c
Birdwatch: the avian equivalent of a catwalk model, blue cranes are under threat - AOL (opens the original)
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Few birds are quite as elegant as the blue crane. As I watched a pair feeding alongside a busy road in South Africa, against the rather incongruous backdrop of a herd of cows, I was struck by their sheer beauty. With a slender body, curved neck, long legs, elongated tail plumes and a subtle, dove-grey plumage, this bird really is the avian equivalent of a catwalk model. But not all is well for the blue crane. It has the smallest global range of any of the world’s 15 crane species: apart from an
Harry Green obituary (opens the original)
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The conservationist Harry Green was a naturalist of the amateur school, with an encyclopedic knowledge of British wildlife based on a lifetime in the field. Though born and brought up in Oxfordshire, he spent the whole of his adult life in his adopted county of Worcestershire. Harry, who has died aged 92, remembered being kept awake during the second world war by calling corncrakes in the meadows near his home. Later he strove, against the odds, to save Britain’s last colony of marsh warblers ne
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