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Release Date: February 24, 2021 An overview of the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory’s successes in collection and curation of bird banding data in the last year, featuring some of the remarkable bird bandings, recaptures, and encounters from 2020. In 2020, the Bird Banding Laboratory reached an impressive milestone celebrating its 100-year anniversary. For a century, the BBL in collaboration with the Bird Banding Office of the Environment and Climate Change Canada, has administered the North American Bird Banding Program and maintained a database of over 77 million records of banded birds and 5 million encounters of those banded birds. In 2020 alone, the NABBP received over a half a million banding records and almost 80,000 encounters of previously banded birds (see Figure 1 and 2). In comparison, in 2019 over 900,000 birds were banded. This reduction in banding data received at the lab is a consequence of reduced efforts likely due to COVID-19 restrictions that ....
Conservation experts share world’s top ‘love birds’ ahead of Valentine’s Day Close up of two adult King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) with beaks crossing, South Georgia. (Natalie Bowes / WWF-Canada) Ahead of Valentine’s Day, conservation experts from the WWF have shared some of the top love birds in the animal kingdom. Although humans might be the only species with a day dedicated to celebrating love, for a number of birds relationships are also a long-term commitment. Paul De Ornellas, chief adviser of Wildlife at WWF-UK said: “In nature, we see all sorts of complex relationships, but we do know that some species form long-lasting pairs and exhibit extreme loyalty to their partners. ....