Daily Grist: MORE THAN 25% OF U.S. BIRD SPECIES IMPERILED

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At 03:02 PM 12/3/07, you wrote:

 

>A Beak Outlook

>More than a quarter of U.S. bird species imperiled

>

>It's not a good time to be a bird in the U.S. The Watch List 2007,

>published by the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy,

>finds that 178 bird species in the continental U.S. and 39 in Hawaii are

>vulnerable to extinction. That's almost all of Hawaii's non-migratory

>native birds and more than a quarter of total U.S. bird species, including

>the Gunnison sage grouse, lesser prairie chicken, and masked booby, which

>makes us giggle. While 27 bird species are coming off the list this year,

>the total number of species on the list is up 11 percent from five years

>ago. The usual suspects are to blame: climate change, habitat loss, and a

>federal government that, says one report coauthor, " doesn't believe in the

>Endangered Species Act. "

>

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>sources: Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today

 

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