Cook's Petrel
The Obama administration has decided not to list the Cook’s petrel as an endangered species. The seabird lives off the coast of New Zealand. In 2007 the Bush administration had proposed listing the foreign species. But Fish and Wildlife Service biologists now say that updated information shows that the bird is not as rare as was believed in 2007 when the listing was first proposed.
The Obama administration has decided to proceed with listing 14 other foreign birds under the Endangered Species Act. Such designation gives added worldwide publicity to the birds’ status and prohibits the importation of the birds or any parts of the birds to the United States.
The foreign birds listed as endangered or threatened include the Galapagos petrel and the Heinroth’s shearwater, two birds that were first proposed for protection 30 years ago. Also listed as threatened foreign species are six birds from South America: the ash-breasted tit-tyrant, the Junin grebe, the Junin rail, the royal cinclodes, the white-browed tit-spinetail, and the Peruvian plantcutter.
Asian birds proposed for protection are the greater adjutant, Jerdon’s courser, and the slender-billed curlew. Two South Pacific birds — the Marquesan imperial-pigeon and the Eiao Polynesian warbler — are also proposed to be listed as threatened. Also, the FWS proposed that Spain’s Cantabrian capercaillie be protected.
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Theodore Cross, the founder of Birders United and the author of Birds of the Sea, Shore, and Tundra, has authored a new book which is available from W.W. Norton Company. Cross’ photographs include birds from four continents. From the tundra of eastern Siberia to the tropical islands of the South Pacific, Cross has captured elegant and unusual birds—from auklets and egrets to gannets and sanderlings—in peak action, be they courting, landing on a perch, plunge diving, or engaged in aerobatics.
The 179 color photographs in this 344-page book are accompanied by gracefully written field notes and fascinating accounts of the birds’ habits and habitat.
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Once again Obama shows his ignorance, and likef for foreign countries before his own even to the protecting foreign birds before a native one. The guy is a disaster to our country and our wildlife because he has no clue what he is doing. There are many fellow birder who thought he was going to be better than Bush but historically Bush has a infinitely better environmental record than Obama. I fear he has spent us into a wildlife disaster for decades to come. He has spent generations of money and there will be nothing left for those of us who love nature. A few years ago my wife and I were lucky enough to observe 5 rose-breasted grosbeaks on our feeders for over a month and it was awesome. Obama probably wouldn't know a rose-breasted grosbeaks from a red headed woodpecker.