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NOVA Online Garden of Eden Saving the Magpie Robin Early English colonists bestowed the name magpie robin, because the bird's bold plumage resembles that of the European magpie, and its close relationship with humans is reminiscent of European robins. By 1970, 16 Seychelles magpie robins remained on Earth, all on Frégate. The Seychelles magpie robin (Copsychus sechellarum), a black-feathered bird about the size of a European blackbird, dwindled to fewer than 20 individuals on a single island in the Seychelles, an archipelago of about 100 granite and coral islands strewn like a handful of beads between India and Madagascar. www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/eden/robin.html   (968 words)

PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - THE SEYCHELLES The low point for the Magpie Robin was in the 1950's when a naturalized population on the Alfonse atoll became extinct within a few years of cats being introduced, leaving a sole surviving population on Frigate Island. Magpie Robins are found throughout Asia and Madagascar, but the species in the Seychelles is unique and also the most endangered one. Magpie Robins are virtually without fear, they are extremely confiding with no natural fear of cats so they were easy prey. www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20020813_log_transcript.html   (1213 words)

Magpie Notes Magpies were said to warn their human neighbors of the presence of foxes, wolves, or armed men; hence in Poitou formerly little bunches of heath or laurel wre tied up in the trees in honor of them. Magpie feathers were used for ceremonial costumes by many tribes; the Yokuts of south central California, for instance, used a tall dance headdress made of magpie tail plumes encircled at the base with crow feathers. Magpie is formed as a compound of Mag, the diminutive of Margaret, and pie, which probably comes from a French word imitative of the bird's call. www.wisdomportal.com /MagpieNotes.html   (1372 words)

magpie robin (copsychus saularis): info fact sheet, photos The Status of the Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis) in Singapore by Huong Shiow Lin on the Conservation and Behavioural Ecology Laboratory at the National University of Singapore: an abstract of the study which suggests that the population on the main island is still threatened. Magpie Robins have a delightful varied song and are said to be able to imitate the calls of other birds. Magpie Robins have a varied diet of fruits and animals but are particularly fond of insects and worms. www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Copsychus_saularis.htm   (861 words)

Robins are a welcome sign of spring Robins are heavily dependent on worms in spring, when invertebrates make up virtually their entire diet, so they have evolved a pattern of showing up on the nesting grounds just about the time the soil gets warm enough for worms to appear. The robin's horizontal migration northward in spring is largely determined by the vertical migration of another creature. Robins do migrate each fall (Michigan robins head for the mid-South), but in mild winters we sometimes see robins that have migrated from their summer homes in northern Newfoundland and Labrador to our relatively balmy clime. www.freep.com /sports/outdoors/outcol1_20010601.htm   (468 words)

magpie-robin --  Encyclopædia Britannica Robin McKinley introduced new audiences to timeless tales through her adaptations of classic children's literature, and her award-winning original fantasy fiction was treasured by young readers. The American robin (Turdus migratorius), a large North American thrush, is one of the most familiar songbirds in the eastern United States. One of the romantic heroes of the Middle Ages was the outlaw Robin Hood of England. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050075?tocId=9050075   (609 words)

NOVA Online Garden of Eden Saving the Magpie Robin (2) And in 2000, we held the entire population of magpie robins on Frégate in the aviaries for four months while we eradicated rats accidentally introduced there in 1996 during tourist development. We know that a major predator of Seychelles magpie robins there is the barn owl, which, ironically enough, was introduced in the 1950s to control rats, another robin killer. Recently, six articles on the Seychelles magpie robin appeared in the national newspaper The Nation, and a segment on translocating the birds aired on television. www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/eden/robin2.html   (1025 words)

Seychelles Magpie-Robin The Seychelles magpie robin is confined to Frégate, the black parrot to Praslin and the melodious brush warbler to Cousin. The Seychelles Magpie Robin, one of the world’s rarest birds is found on the island. The Seychelles Magpie Robin, on of the world’s rarest birds is found on the island. www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/S/Seychelles_Magpie-Robin.shtml   (2006 words)

Aride Island :: News This procedure has been carried out on many Magpie Robins, on several islands, but this young Robin is particularly special as it is the 16th member of its species on Aride Island, and thus it brings the total population on the island to the highest number since their successful reintroduction just over two years ago. Today the total global population of Seychelles Magpie Robins is estimated at around 130 -140 birds, a great improvement and the result of years of determined conservation effort by a handful of individuals and organisations. With 5 breeding pairs established in territories on Aride, and another egg currently under incubation, it is hoped that ‘number 16’ will be the first of many more new additions to the increasing Aride Seychelles Magpie Robin population. www.arideisland.net /news/news.asp   (4624 words)

Fregate Island Private Il magpie robin, che rischiava l'estinzione a causa delle sue spiccate qualità canore (era infatti divenuto un uccello molto popolare da allevare in cattività) ha dovuto rinunciare al suo habitat naturale a favore delle vaste piantagioni di cocco. www.fregate.com /Nature_i.htm   (231 words)

Language Log: Making up names Among other modified bird-names involving robin are the "blue robin, the bluebird, Sialia sialis; golden robin, the Baltimore oriole; Indian robin...; magpie robin...; yellow robin...; etc." Abandoning its usual exhaustiveness, the OED suggests plaintively: "For an enumeration of the various Australian birds thus named see Morris Austral English 390-1." Robin Red-breast was just another of these coinages, used since about 1450 to name a commonplace bird. Geoff Pullum, citing his invention of the term "California bluebush" as a model, suggests that the Inuit have plenty of resources at their disposal for naming newly-encountered species like robins. itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001666.html   (261 words)

Conservation magpie robin The population of the Seychelles Magpie Robin has reached dangerously low levels to only just over 80 birds across four islands and the species was in critical danger and required immediate action. A world first was achieved on this project when a Seychelles Magpie Robin was hand-raised and also Robins were bred successfully in captivity both of which had never been done before. It looks like we will release more birds than we brought in!” And Brinsea Products were delighted to participate in such an important and happily successful conservation project to help protect the population of the Seychelles Magpie Robin. www.brinsea.co.uk /uk/news/magpie.html   (305 words)

Nishorga: Nature >> Birds >> Oriental Magpie Robin (Doel): Bangladesh's National Bird Magpie robin has another attractive thing- that is it's tail. If you walk through a village you have heard the voice chihiuee-tiusu, suitu-su-su suruth,shu-e-e.Yah thats the tone of Magpie Robin. The size of the female is smaller than the male bird. www.nishorga.com /nature/birds/doel.html   (403 words)

Research details - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Almost none of the magpie robin's original habitat remains and the population has been maintained in recent years largely by supplementary feeding. However, we have developed a new means of invertebrate sampling that should better account for invertebrates moving on the surface that are actually available to magpie robins. McCulloch and Norris (in prep.) Conservation management and population demography of the endangered Seychelles Magpie Robin Copsychus sechellarum on Fregate island. www.rspb.org.uk /science/Ecology/seychellesmagpierobin/details.asp   (491 words)

Virtual Bangladesh : Birds of Bangladesh The Doel or the magpie robin is the national bird of Bangladesh. The common myna is about the size of an American robin. Local birders willing to show foreign visiting birders around their country - if you are prepared to return the favour to visitors to your country... www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_geog_birds.html   (359 words)

Threatened birds worldwide - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The Seychelles magpie robin suffered from loss of its native woodland habitat and from predation by introduced cats and rats, which by 1965 had reduced the population to 12 birds on one island only. The international magpie robin recovery programme led by the RSPB and BirdLife International has been successful, and the population is now increasing. The takahe still survives in the wild in very small numbers in remote mountain areas, while the handful of surviving kakapo, a flightless parrot, have been translocated to offshore islands where they are safe from predators. www.rspb.org.uk /birds/advice/endangeredspecies/threatened_birds_worldwide.asp   (926 words)

InfoHub Forums - Asian-magpie Robin Magpie Robins have a delightful varied song and are said to be able to imitate the calls of other birds. The Magpie Robin is a trim black-and-white bird with cocked tail as in Indian Robin. The female Oriental Magpie Robin differs from the male by lacking the black head and breast. www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=785   (189 words)

Magpie-robin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article The magpie-robins or shamas are medium-sized insectivorous (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) birds (some also eat berries and other fruit) in the genera Copsychus and Trichixos. (Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres) Passeriformes They were formerly in the (additional info and facts about thrush) thrush family Turdidae, but are more often now treated as part of the (Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing) Old World flycatcher Muscicapidae. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magpie-robin.htm   (139 words)

Nature Seychelles - environmental conservation organisation - Seychelles Magpie Robin: a success story The Seychelles Magpie Robin Copsychus sechellarum is an endemic bird of the Seychelles and is one of the rarest birds on earth. Its conservation status has been improved, however, it is still one of the rarest birds in the world and it is still dependent of the conservation management of the Seychelles Magpie Robin Recovery Team which is coordinated by Nature Seychelles to ensure the future of the species. Between the 1950s and 1990s, the whole world population was restricted to Frégate Island and at times came very close to extinction, it was classed as critically endangered in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Animals. www.natureseychelles.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=106   (587 words)

Science Show - 25/08/01: Saving Endangered Birds There were only 82 Magpie Robins left in the wild and they were on three small rat infested islands in the Seychelles group. Now they’re not arboreal so they can’t predate on the nests, but Magpie Robin chicks for the first week after fledging basically roost at night on the ground and obviously the rats come out at night and they were predating on the young chicks. In essence, these birds they number 82 in the wild; there’s only 82 left, and they are only found on three very small islands on the Seychelles and all three of the islands are heavily populated with the introduced brown rat and they were heavily impacting on the breeding results of this particularly rare bird. www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s342389.htm   (1444 words)

afrol News - Seychelles bird recovers from near-extinction While the expansion of the Seychelles Magpie Robin population only goes at a slow paste on the archipelago, the immediate danger of extinction however seems to be farther away. afrol News, 1 June - The Seychelles Magpie Robin was near extinct in 1965, as only 12-15 birds had survived the introduction of new predators to the archipelago. Once found on at least six islands in the Seychelles, the Seychelles Magpie Robin (Copsychus sechellarum) dwindled to just 12—15 birds on Frégate Island by 1965, largely because of predation and competition with invasive species. www.afrol.com /articles/16482   (572 words)

The Hindu : Song for the morning The Indian Magpie Robin is a neat and trim looking bird, plumper and bigger than the sparrow and about the size of a bulbul. There is also a slightly smaller robin, the Indian Robin which is also a black bird with a smaller white patch on the wing and a rust coloured patch under its cocked tail. The robin, is common in the plains and gardens, picks insects and occasionally feeds on flower nectar. www.hinduonnet.com /2001/04/28/stories/1328110b.htm   (232 words)

Blogger: Email Post to a Friend ST reported today: "The magpie robin, which was believed to have all but disappeared from Singapore, has been spotted in the Peirce Road area, according to a Straits Times reader who saw the birds making nests in his garden and the immediate neighbourhood. so just keep a look out for not just magpie robin poachers, there will be people up to "money business" in nature areas. He said ruefully: 'This has happened five to six times and, without fail, the wild magpie is caught. www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6274266&postID=107474109065069975   (406 words)

September 2004 Sightings The Birds - Blackbirds, House Sparrows, Willow Warbler, Dunnock, Wood Pigeons, Carrion Crows, Magpies, Robins, Starlings, Wren, Grey Wagtail and Jackdaws. The Birds - Robins, Wood Pigeons, Swallows, Carrion Crows, Buzzard, Starlings, Wrens, Dunnock, Willow Warbler, Magpies and Jackdaws. The Birds - Swallows, Jackdaws, Magpies, Starlings, House Sparrows, Carrion Crows, Chiffchaffs, Willow Warblers, Blackbirds, Robins, Blue Tits, Goldfinches, Wren, House Martins, Wood Pigeons, Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch and Pied Wagtails. www.deanbirders.co.uk /sightings/2004/september.htm   (3156 words)

Robin, Jacky-winter, Tomtit information, Robin, Jacky-winter, Tomtit picture Cool facts and description."Robins are often one of the first birds to sing in the morning, singing long choruses of rhythmic paired phrases of two or three syllables that alternately rise and fall in pitch". "The American Robin, the largest of the North American thrushes, is found over most of North America in the summer months". "They belong to the new world robins the Eopsaltriidae, and are not related to the Northern Hemisphere robins". www.junglewalk.com /info/robin-information.htm   (303 words)

shiki.archive.0009: Re: SHIKI magpie robin Next in thread: Margaret Havey: "Re: SHIKI magpie robin" In reply to: Patrick Gallagher: "SHIKI magpie robin" haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp /shiki.archive/0009/0321.html   (87 words)

Nature Seychelles - environmental conservation organisation - Seychelles Magpie Robin The most endangered of the endemic birds, Seychelles Magpie Robin or Pi Santez in Creole, came Its conservation status has greatly improved, but it still relies on conservation management and implementation of the Seychelles Magpie Recovery Team (SMART), which was formed to take conservation actions to save this species. Through an active conservation programme coordinated by BirdLife Interntional and later Nature Seychelles, which involved moving predators, improving habitat and providing nest boxes on Fregate and moving birds to other predator-free islands to start new populations, the total number of birds has risen significantly, although it remains one of the rarest birds in the world. www.natureseychelles.org /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=46   (257 words)

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