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	Birds going extinct faster due to human activities
		Without the influence of humans, the expected extinction rate for birds would be roughly one species per century, according to Stuart Pimm, professor of conservation ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, who is one of the report's principal authors.
		One factor contributing to such large differences in estimates is that "more than half of the known species of birds were not discovered until after 1850, an important point that previous estimates of extinction rates have failed to take into account," Raven said.
		Of the 9,775 known species of birds, "an estimated additional 25 would have gone extinct during the past 30 years if it were not for human intervention," Raven said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-07/du-bge070506.php (772 words)

	St. Louis County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Columbia Bottom is a floodplain in the northeast of the county at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; this is a conservation area open to the public.
		The Charbonnier Bluff along the Missouri River is an outcropping of coal, and was used a fueling station for steamboats.
		The county is on the Mississippi Flyway, used by migrating birds, and has a large variety of small bird species, common to the eastern U.S. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow, an introduced species, is limited in North American to the counties surrounding Saint Louis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Louis_County,_Missouri (1544 words)

	Missouri self guided upland bird hunts
		While Missouri does have an overlapping range of two upland birds, the second being the pheasant across its northern tier counties, the bird hunter is there due to Missouri's superior quail hunting.
		The converse is true for the Missouri pheasant that while it has an overlapping range it is limited in density with the better pheasant habitat is to be found in Kansas and Iowa.
		The driving topography for Missouri upland bird hunting habitat and its quail is that northern part of the state is heavily cut by the Grand River Watershed and rolling terrain to the point of inhibiting human impact on the deeper creek and river bottoms than elsewhere leaving the trees to grow large.
	www.ks-mo-hunt.org /missouri_upland_birds.htm (538 words)

	St Louis County Parks and Recreation
		A fun way to attract birds into your yard with the snow cover, is to provide them with an attractive invitation to a winter feast which we will be making later, along with, cover and nesting sites.
		Our state bird, the Bluebird declared on March 30, 1927 early captured the affection of men through their beauty and melodious songs and because their habits are largely beneficial to us, their preferred feeder foods are raisins and fruits, but they also sample bread, peanuts and peanut butter.
		Even though your garden may already be hospitable to many birds, by intensifying the resources that attract them, you can encourage a wider variety of birds to view and spend more of their time in your yard/garden.
	www.co.st-louis.mo.us /parks/gclub-feeding-birds.html (1809 words)

	NPWRC :: Avifauna of an Early Successional Habitat Along the Middle Missouri River
		All birds detected by sight or by sound were identified and counted and their distance from the point center was measured with a Ranging Model 620 rangefinder.
		For captured birds, measurements of mass (to the nearest 0.1 g on an Ohaus Model LS 200 electronic balance), unflattened wing chord (to the nearest 0.1 mm), and visible subcutaneous fat score, on a scale of 0 to 5 according to Helms and Drury (1960), were obtained.
		and 17.4 birds/point in 1995, and 3,463.2 birds km
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/avihab/index.htm (4592 words)

	Missouri River
		The Missouri River, prior to its modification by man, was known for its shifting channels, high turbidity, and periodic floods.
		Gavins Point Dam, finished in 1955, forms Lewis and Clark Lake near Yankton and is the smallest impoundment on the mainstem Missouri River.
		The Missouri River of the past was characterized by six associated habitat types, all extremely important for wildlife.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/HABITATS/Missio1.htm (1238 words)

	Thunderstone's Webinator: Search: utah wilderness
		We estimated bird abundance in mature forests and on managed plots receiving either a heavy cutting of understory vegetation (understory treatment) or a combination of both understory cutting and selective cutting in the forest overstory (full treatment).
		Point counts in mature forest were located in mature, secon+ oak- hickory forest at least 100 m from the edges of managed plots.
		A single point count was located at the center of each managed plot and in mature forest adjacent to managed plots.
	www.fs.fed.us /cgi-bin/texis/searchallsites/search.allsites/?query=utah+wilderness&db=allsites&cmd=context&id=424ad6250 (3942 words)

	Eleven Point Wild and Scenic River, Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A 44-mile portion of the Eleven Point, free of impoundments and with a largely undeveloped shoreline and watershed, qualified as a National Scenic River.
		All fishing is subject to state of Missouri regulations.
		Snakes, frogs, birds and other wildlife are part of the river ecology and should not be used for target practice.
	www.nps.gov /rivers/wsr-eleven-point.html (1055 words)

	North American Migration Flyways
		Bird migration is generally thought of as a north-and-south movement, with the lanes of heavier concentration following the coasts, mountain ranges and principal river valleys.
		From that point to the South American coast, there is a stretch of unbroken ocean 500 miles across, and scarcely a third of the North American migrants leave the forested mountains of Jamaica to risk the perils of this ocean trip.
		The southward route of migratory land birds of the Pacific Flyway that in winter leave the United States extends through the interior of California to the mouth of the Colorado River and on to the winter quarters that are principally in western Mexico.
	www.birdnature.com /flyways.html (1820 words)

	Hunting The Prince of Game Birds: The Bobwhite Quail
		When a dog goes on point it is best to bring all of the active hunters together, and flush the birds.
		Before walking in to flush the birds, each hunter should look at the likely flight paths the quail might take and decide which of them are safe.
		One of the most common hunting accidents is caused by a hunter swinging on a crossing bird and shooting a hunting partner in the excitement of a covey rise or flush.
	www.cabelas.com /information/cabelasfieldguides/UplandGameBirdsQuail/HuntingThePrinceofGameBirdsTheBobwhiteQuail.html (1902 words)

	Birding Staff Bios ~ Birding ~ Publications ~ ABA
		Each and every issue of Birding is brought to you by, well, not quite a cast of thousands, but indeed by a squad of more than two dozen editors, reviewers, consultants, columnists, and designers.
		A major editorial goal for Birding is that the magazine serve as a forum and sounding board for the diversity of voices in the North American birding community, and our talented staff is a reflection of that diversity.
		However enchanting these birds are, though, she is first and foremost an avid birdwatcher watcher.
	www.americanbirding.org /pubs/birding/bios.html (1522 words)

	NPR : Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu
		But the agency is watching the situation closely to determine whether bird flu is being passed from human to human in North Sumatra.
		May 24, 2006 · Quarantines meant to halt the spread of bird flu in Bucharest have been scaled back, but some neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city are still under lockdown.
		NPR health editor Joe Neel on the risk of bird flu pandemic, and the status of vaccines and treatments.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4949542&sourceCode=gaw (1012 words)

	Bird's Point, Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For seventeen years the principal northern terminus of the Cotton Belt was at Bird's Point, a spot in Missouri on the west bank of the Mississippi, opposite and a little above the mouth of the Ohio River.
		After the Iron Mountain (Missouri Pacific) Railroad's incline at Bird's Point was washed away by the river, that road used the Cotton Belt's incline there.
		During the twenty-five years from 1882 to 1907, the tracks at Bird's Point were overflowed in ten different years and low water obstructed traffic nine different years.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/8199/birds_pt.html (447 words)

	Missouri upland bird hunting
		For most of us it is about the bird dog work and when it comes to dog hunters we certainly enjoy taking good point pictures as much as finding the coveys.
		Bird hunters distinguish themselves as being the most conservation minded of all the different groups in our Association.
		For all those that want self guided upland bird hunting for a good Bobwhite Quail and acceptable pheasant population they will never be disappointed by Missouri's upland bird habitat quality, ability to hunt on their schedule and the opportunity to be on game every day.
	www.mahaupland.com /missouri_upland.htm (564 words)

	Lesnewski's Birdmen Guide
		Once that is done and the Bird strike fleet starts navigating the field, an ion burst decloaking the Superspying ships (with subsequent attack by orbiting enemy ships) has the potential to strand the fleet in the field.
		No bird ship has a big enough cargo capacity to make this worth while as either a source of minerals for the Birds or as more than a mere annoyance to the enemy.
		This one code alone changes the Birds from one the weakest of the VGAP Races to a threat to be feared by all.
	www.xs4all.nl /%7Edonovan/guides/lsbirds.htm (2463 words)

	North American Birds: Iowa & Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The north-south orientation of the Iowa & Missouri region stretches some 1280 km from the cypress swamps of the Missouri boot-heel to the treeless plains of northwestern Iowa.
		Missouri's peak migration of early May was characterized by strong, consistent, southerly winds that seemed to stall just north of the border-many birds whisked straight over Missouri, not needing to stop, rest, and refuel.
		The status of Greater Prairie-Chicken in Missouri remains grim; counts this season indicate that fewer booming males are left in the state.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4104/is_200403/ai_n9344880 (1503 words)

	10000 Birds Blog
		My own site, 10,000 Birds, may be well-established in the world of wild bird bloggery now, but just three years ago I was brand new to bird watching and had yet to publish a single page online.
		Birds, Blogs, and Me Call it serendipity, synchronicity, or what have you, but these two new interests converged at a time when the World Wide Web was wide open, even to well-intentioned but essentially ignorant amateurs like myself.
		We have a boatload to learn about bird calls, habitat, behavior, etc. We also have yet to meet members of the larger BIRDING COMMUNITY, of which perhaps you, the reader, are a part.
	www.birdwatchersdigest.com /site/funbirds/10000_birds_blog.aspx (613 words)

	THE MISSOURI RIVER NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
		The spawning period of Missouri River native fishes and nest initiation by interior least terns and piping plovers occurs during the upward or downward slope of the historical hydrograph.
		Except for the unchannelized reach downstream of Gavins Point Dam, native fish habitat values for the pallid sturgeon and other native fish are all higher for the MRNRC alternative than current operations in the priority recovery areas for pallid sturgeon below Fort Randall Dam downstream to the mouth at St. Louis, Missouri.
		Provision of scouring flows to periodically restore high elevation sandbars, higher flows during nest initiation to force birds to nest at higher elevations on the sandbar and stable to declining flows during the nesting period are the key to tern and plover reproductive success and recovery.
	www.fws.gov /mountain-prairie/missouririver/q&a_972000.htm (2264 words)

	Pelican Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first time I heard someone point to the sky and exclaim, "Hey, here comes a flock of pelicans," I thought he was pulling my leg.
		They really were white pelicans and they had landed-like they do every spring-on a Missouri waterway to rest and eat before flying farther north to breed.
		Young birds eat partially predigested food from the adults' bills, sometimes appearing to climb all the way inside the offered pouch to eat.
	www.conservation.state.mo.us /conmag/2002/01/10.htm (1340 words)

	About Us
		Because of this we have plenty of first hand experience with almost all of the wild upland bird land and track (forecast) both pheasant and quail populations over the entire year as well as from season to season.
		John also is a multi state, multi bird self guided hunter covering the cactus and snake regions of the southwest, the east slope of the Rockies and the northern grouse states as well as avidly pursuing pheasant and quail here in the central mid-west.
		That is the effect, the cause is that all members have as good as a hunt as is possible through equal access to all land, all seasons in all states.
	www.mahaupland.com /about.htm (1233 words)

	06/12/01 -- In the Prairie Heartland, a Wealth of Shorebirds Gathers
		These are the Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira marshes, the stopping point for hundreds of thousands of migrant birds that make their way each spring and fall along the Central Flyway.
		Some of the finest birding on the continent is to be had in these impressive wetlands, especially during the spring migration, which is just coming to an end.
		Bird species that occur in the east or the west have a small zone of overlap here, and there are plenty of land birds in addition to the fantastic shorebird display.
	www.forests.org /archive/america/inthepra.htm (1213 words)

	Bird evolution flies out the window
		Birds have a distinctive, specialized skeleton because, as one distinguished evolutionist who is also an ornithologist once said, ‘Birds are formed to fly.’ So was Archaeopteryx.
		Some recent fascinating studies using moving X-rays of birds as they fly show how the shoulder girdle has to be flexible to cope with the incredible forces of the power-stroke in flight.
		Birds couldn’t clap their limbs together in front anyway — they just don't have that kind of a shoulder.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs/1352.asp (1690 words)

	Migratory Birds Program - Setting Conservation Priorities for Birds in Latin America
		In order to effectively protect the most number of species that are of the highest conservation concern as a result of these threats, accurate data on their distribution and conservation status is urgently needed.
		Utilizing existing data on the distribution of birds of conservation concern in Latin America, The Nature Conservancy's Migratory Bird Program and the University of Arkansas' Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies initiated a comprehensive conservation assessment project to identify "hotspots" for birds that are in greatest need of protection.
		Using those species deemed of greatest conservation concern by BirdLife International, The Nature Conservancy, and the influential publication "Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation," the hemisphere's foremost ornithological experts and conservationists came together and agreed upon one single, well-defined list of Latin American resident birds that are facing severe threats and need the most urgent protection.
	www.nature.org /initiatives/programs/birds/work/art8640.html (498 words)

	Great Gathering on the Great Plains - National Wildlife Magazine
		There is also a majesty and balletlike beauty in the synchronized movements of hundreds of birds all simultaneously setting their wings, lowering their legs and parachuting downward, as if they knew they had finally returned home.
		During a sun-warmed day in mid-April, when thermals are forming under cottony white clouds and a gentle breeze comes out of the south, the birds ascend in great slow-motion whirlwinds, their wings lifted by the invisible thermals until the cranes are almost out of sight.
		The whooping crane is the gold standard of American birds: It is the tallest, one of the rarest, and certainly one of the most beautiful of all North American bird species.
	www.nwf.org /nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=764&issueId=61 (2555 words)

	The Art History of Missouri
		Another reason it got slightly damaged was because of birds, the extreme heat, and smoke from nearby factories that came through the windows when they were opened.
		Missouri was the starting point of many trails that led pioneers westward.
		Over the three doors in the Missouri House of Representatives lounge, Benton illustrated the legend of "Frankie and Johnny." This barroom scene is a memorial to the famed lover's quarrel in the late 1880's in St. Louis that ended in murder.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Exhibit/5437/THBind.html (1203 words)

	Agreement Reached on 2003 Missouri River Plan--23-April-03
		Of particular concern are two migratory birds, the endangered interior least tern and the threatened piping plover, listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
		Decreases can threaten nesting birds by encouraging them to nest on sandbars that are likely to be flooded if higher flows are necessary later in the nesting season to meet downstream targets.
		After the last of the birds have left the nesting grounds in mid- to late-August, water management will return to a true flow-to-target operation, most likely at the minimum service flow level.
	www.waterchat.com /News/Federal/03/Q2/fed_030423-01.htm (767 words)

	Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
		The national bird of the U.S. was seriously endangered by the 1970's due to the effects of DDT and other pesticides.
		When fish are scarce, may eat birds (ducks, coots, others) or mammals (rabbits, muskrats, others).
		Some coastal populations are permanent residents, but birds in the interior of the country are generally migratory.
	sdakotabirds.com /species/bald_eagle_info.htm (382 words)

	A Midway history lesson
		Missouri's right-to-know law has been blocked by restraining orders since 2003.
		The force-feeding process exacts a horrific toll on the birds, whose physical condition rapidly deteriorates, often leaving them scarcely able to stand, walk or even breathe comfortably.
		If the birds survive a month or more of force-feeding, they are slaughtered, their livers sold as a gourmet delicacy.
	www.suntimes.com /output/letters/cst-edt-vox14a.html (1367 words)

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