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Return of the tundra swans attracting spectators in Lambton Shores Tundra swans have returned to farm fields near the Lambton Heritage Museum in Lambton Shores which serve as a traditional pit stops on the birds annual migration north. Author of the article: Paul Morden Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021  •  March 10, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Tundra swans are shown in this file photo flying over Greenway Road in Lambton Shores. The nearby Lambton Heritage Museum is currently c...

Fujairah: The UAE has registered its first visual record of a rare and endangered Omani Owl, officials have revealed. The elusive Omani Owl was spotted on camera in the mountainous Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP) in Fujairah. The national park team was able to record the Omani Owl through recent surveys, said Mohammad Saif Al-Afkham, Director General, Fujairah Municipality. The Omani Owl is a pale, medium-sized owl with a dark brown patch above and narrow dark streaks below. First confirmatio...

Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – February 11, 2021 Greater Niagara Region   It is cold out there. The temperature this morning was 12 degrees. This cold snap will stay with us for at least another week or so. The polar blast has had a serious impact on Lake Erie and what was once wide-open water as recent as last week now has 80 percent ice cover according to recent reports. What that means for lower Niagara River fishermen is that storms will not have as much of an effect on th...

div class "bg_partners_and_news" /div Like most websites we use cookies. If you’re happy with that, just carry on as normal (close this bar) - otherwise click here to find out more. 2 Feb 2021 Irreplaceable: Barr Al Hikman, Arabian peninsula shorebird haven Barr Al Hikman in Oman is a vital rest stop for more than half a million birds, boasting some of the highest shorebird densities of any intertidal mudflat. The formal protection of this site would therefore secure a crucia...

Sax-Zim Bog winter birding offers a great pandemic getaway. 7:00 pm, Jan. 20, 2021 × John Alexander Kay (left) and John Heino photograph birds at Sax-Zim Bog recently. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) MEADOWLANDS, Minn. — Flittering around a bird feeder set along a gravel county road, in the middle of nowhere in the heart of the Sax-Zim Bog, ruddy pine grosbeaks were the stars of the moment. They come this far south most winters, but they really inundated the bog in Decemb...

Network of marine protected areas ‘could help safeguard Antarctic penguins’ (Heather Lynch/Stony Brook University/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Breeding Antarctic penguins could be helped by a proposed network of marine protected areas (MPAs), according to new research. Experts say these areas could safeguard...

These mesmerising pictures were taken by International Space Station astronauts from over 200 miles up The photos show some of Earths most beautiful places and the scale of dramatic atmospheric conditions  Theres also a shot of the Kerguelen Islands, which sit in the vast emptiness of the southern Indian Ocean  Lets go up, up and away to a tranquil place where we can all get a bit of perspective on life - orbit. These mesmerising pictures were taken by International Space Station astronauts a...

Sax-Zim Bog winter birding offers a great pandemic getaway close to home. 12:00 pm, Jan. 8, 2021 × John Alexander Kay (left) and John Heino photograph birds at Sax-Zim Bog recently. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) MEADOWLANDS — Flittering around a bird feeder set along a gravel county road, in the middle of nowhere in the heart of the Sax-Zim Bog, ruddy pine grosbeaks were the stars of the moment. They come this far south most winters, but they really inundated the bog in...

Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke The Nature Conservancy of Canada is close to achieving something big. Advertisement The Nature Conservancy of Canada is close to achieving something big. A land deal they’re on the verge of closing would help them secure a 114.6-hectare parcel of land. JACQUES BRISSON A yellow rail, which is seen in abundance at Douglas Marsh. Located south of the Town of Douglas on the west side of Provincial Highway 340, t...

Zosterops meeki. And it looks like we’ve done so just in time, because two of the species – the Tagula Butcherbird and Tagula White-eye – are Near Threatened. Logging, agricultural expansion and commercial gold prospecting are destroying their rainforest habitats. These vital new discoveries came in large part from research lead by one scientist, William Goulding, whose ambition is to improve knowledge of all the endemic bird species of Tagula and the wider Louisiade Archipelago. His rese...