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Search Search Index: Surfbirds Web Put your search term in quotes " " Quick Help		• Today's Bird and Wildlife Headlines from around the world click here • What's In The Magazines click here • Snettisham's Samboilbae for Saemangeum - January 2004 click here • Stronsay Bird Report 2002 click here • Northants Bird Report 2002 click here • Biggest Accounting Scandal of Them All? click here • Fuertes's Parrot rediscovered click here • Isles of Scilly Bird Report - 2001 click here • Dishwashing liquid - kind to your feathers ! - August 2002 click here • RSPB fights the cause of the Little Egret - August 2002 click here • Gray Catbird accepted to Category A of British List - August 2002 click here • Isles of Scilly bird log - Autumn 2002 - click here • Siberian Blue Robin accepted to Category A of British List - August 2002 click here • Red-billed Tropicbird accepted to Category A of British List - August 2002 click here • Runway? No Way! RSPB urge immediate withdrawal - click here • Hampshire Bird Report 2000 - reviewed by Ken Arber - July 2002 click here • Alaska's forests under threat from US "Roadless Rule" amendment - July 2002 click here • University of Connecticut Seaside Sparrow :Project - July 2002 click here • Northern Bald Ibis discovered breeding in Syria - July 2002 click here • Cuvier's Beaked Whale strands in Norfolk - July 2002 click here • Lincolnshire oil-rig plays host to Rose-coloured Starling - June 2002 click here • Where have all London's sparrows gone - June 2002 click here • RSPB launch campaign to stop new airport in Kent - June 2002 click here • Bill Oddie and others lend support to "Stop new airport in Kent" - June 2002 click here • Toxic algae endangers the Brown Pelican in California - May 2002 click here • Choughs breed in Cornwall - May 2002 click here • Audobon CT calls for urgent action to protect Highlands click here • English Nature launches Hen Harrier Project click here • Pipeline endangers Amazon watershed click here • Manx Shearwater reaches 50 years of age click here • BOURC Review of Greater Flamingo records in UK click here • South Africa and Spain to sign Petrel and Albatross agreeement click here • BirdLife International welcomes suspension of oil pipeline in Ecuador click here • BirdLife International hails Kakapo "baby boom" in New Zealand click here • UK Long-eared Owl Survey 2002 click here • Migration Watch -2002 - a great new internet site from the BTO click here • Midway Atoll is Closed click here • Gooney Birds - 1.2 million chance! click here • British Birdwatching Fair 2001 - record broken click here • Canvasback Press Release click here •Prince Charles on Saving The Albatross click here • Booted Eagle Press Release click here and Slender-billed Curlew Press Release click here • Afghan bombing -disaster for the Siberian Crane click here • BOURC - Annual Report click here • BOU -New Additions to British List click here • Migration Watch 2002 - New Website from BTO click here • New book claims Leonardo da Vinci ate Red-throated Divers/Loons click here • American Citizens are Saving The World's Birds click here • Agriculture and habitat loss - key threats to Africa's birds click here • Birdlife Intnl. announce "extinct" Damar Flycatcher rediscovered click here 2001 news releases: • BOU Taxonomic Review Oct'01 • Richard Allen Exhibition Dec' 2001 • FRS Guidelines Summary from the ABA • Ontario lays rare charges over Eagle's nest • ARKive - a global web-based initiative to preserve images of the world's most endangered species • Ospreys breeding in Lake District, UK • Amazing images of Dutch Griffons, • Brazil promises to save Atlantic forests • Asia Faces Bird Extinction Crisis • 80 Black-legged Kittiwakes shot at point blank in gruesome crime. • New North American Birding Big Day Record Set and then Broken again! • Baltic Oil Spill Threatens Birds and Feeding Grounds • S. Dillon Ripley dies aged 87 • BirdLife Press Realease: Brazilian Oil Slicks Pose Threat to rare Seabirds • BirdLife Press Release: Plan To Halt "Pirate Fishing" • BirdLife Press Release: Important Cook Islands Seabird Site Under Threat • BirdLife Press Release: Oil Pipeline to destroy endangered hummingbird in Ecuador • Audubon News Release • Don R Eckelberry dies at age 79 • BirdLife Press Release - Galapagos Oil Spill • BOU Press Release and the BOU 27th Report • BOU Press Release - Changes to British List • Announcing a new website IndiaBirds.com Rescue Package Launched The state of the world's threatened bird species is worse than ever, with the extinction rate on course for a dramatic rise 500 times above the natural rate over the next 100 years, according to a major new assessment. click here Save the Albatross Campaign. BirdLIfe International's illustrated article on how you can help. click here Chinese Crested Tern rediscovered Thought to have been extinct since the 1930s, six pairs of Chinese Crested Terns have been discovered breeding on a secret islet in the South China Sea. A tourist discovered the birds and sent photos in to the Wild Bird Federation Taiwan, who have since authenticated the sighting. Last confirmed sighting of this species was off Shandong in 1937. Dr. Ian Nesbit, a world authority on terns told the BBC that it would be a real challenge to protect the terns. Click here to see a news snippet from BirdLife International.
		(Barn Owl Surfbirds header by Nigel Blake)