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(EnviroNews Wyoming) — The battle between the wind power industry and conservation NGOs protecting golden eagles just heated up in the wake of President Trump’s Executive Order 90 FR 8363 regarding wind power issued on Jan. 20, 2025. The Albany County Conservancy (ACC), the Wyoming Association of Professional…

(EnviroNews Utah) — Provo, Utah — On a July night in the summer of 2024, David Kirkham was watching a documentary on YouTube with his family about the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) — the fastest running feathered creature on Earth that can also fly. Never in his wildest…

(EnviroNews Nature) — The death toll for birds that crash into buildings has been vastly underestimated until now, according to new research. The study was published in the open access mega-journal PLOS One and it says wildlife agencies and organizations have been miscalculating the number of fatalities by…

(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — It may sound a bit hard to believe, but scientists have now taught parrots how to communicate with each other via video calls. Researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Glasgow and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made the breakthrough after seeking…

(EnviroNews Nature) — A strain of avian influenza known as H5N1 is now thought to have killed more than 58 million birds across the United States while hopping over the so-called “species barrier” and infecting 12 species of mammal. After originating in Europe in the fall of 2021,…

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — An animal welfare charity says it is a “moral tragedy” that millions of birds are being culled using a controversial method which causes “severe distress.” Campaigners say the contentious “ventilation” technique was designed for use in extreme circumstances but is instead being used…

(EnviroNews Nature) — Boothbay Harbor, Maine — One of the rarest eagles in the world has sent birdwatchers into a flap after spending weeks in Maine. A lone Steller’s sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), which is native to Russia, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, has taken up residence near…

(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — COVID-19 lockdowns encouraged 80 percent of North American bird species to move towards urban areas, according to a new study. But now, with people going about their daily business like pre-COVID times, will any of the benefit for birds remain? Researchers from…

(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — New York City, New York — Hundreds of birds have been killed after flying into New York City skyscrapers. Experts have suggested turbulent weather may have contributed to the freak event which saw nearly 300 migratory birds fatally collide with buildings on…

(EnviroNews Nature) — Washington, D.C. — In the last few months of Donald Trump’s term as president, his Interior Department (DOI) unfurled an unprecedented barrage of rule-changes and rollbacks targeting environmental regulations and wildlife protections; it took EnviroNews two in-depth reports spanning 7,000 words to catalog most of…