📰 New California Condors Nest

The YUROK TRIBE in the Pacific Northwest has reintroduced a pair of California Condors, who have established a nest.

🔭 Biologists with the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) determined that the female condor, known by her Yurok name Ney-gem’ Ne-chween-kah (“She carries our prayers”), likely laid an egg inside a hollow in an old-growth redwood tree.

🧑‍💼 This rare event did not come easy. The tribe spent nearly two decades conducting studies, evaluating contaminant risks, and building partnerships before releasing the first cohort of four condors in May 2022.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/california-condors-nesting-pacific-northwest/

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📰 Big Data Is Protecting Birds

Massive database, compiled by cooperating organizations, allows a rare, critical, wide-ranging multi-species synthesis to inform conservation across flyways.

🐦‍⬛ The information from electronic tags is combined with survey and community science data to create a rich picture of where shorebirds are and where they are going.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-shorebird-science-big-birds.html

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🐦 We are getting reports that migrating hummingbirds have been seen near the NC / SC border.

We have our feeders out for the first wave which will pass by on their way farther north.

👀 Has anyone in North Carolina spotted any?

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You may remember that I posted recently about how to support bird nesting.

Yesterday, I had my gardening support wagon out and in it was a wooden box of small tools. A glove lay on top.

🐦 A pair of Carolina Wrens promptly started using my easily available nesting materials to build a nest under the glove in the box!

🤯 It was nearly complete in no time. They used twigs, stems, and leaves that I had broken into small pieces, dried iris leaves, fluffy debris from flowers, etc., and moss from a nearby shady area.

😬 I didn't have the heart to toss this away, so I moved the whole thing over to a bush about a meter away, a much better place. Jammed it between three branches pretty securely.

🤞 I'll check later to see if they accepted the new location.

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How Namibia’s Bird Conservation Projects Build Community Resilience

🐦‍⬛ Droughts and land degradation often erode communities’ social bonds, but in the Karas region of Namibia, bird conservation initiatives have become a rallying point.

🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Women and youth are at the forefront of these initiatives, which has inspired confidence among peers and shown that conservation is not the domain of scientists alone, but also a practice of everyday community resilience.

More here:
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/how-namibias-bird-conservation-projects-build-community-resilience-commentary

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CONSERVATION EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL FOR THREATENED LOON

🐦‍⬛ Common Loon populations in Maine had been dwindling due to mercury in water from coal industry and lead/lifecycle disruption from fishing industry.

🏛️ In recent years, however, targeted conservation laws and related actions have led to increases in populations.

https://outdoors.com/officials-are-cautiously-optimisticat-the-comeback-of-an-animal-they-thought-was-extinct/

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Supporting local biodiversity doesn’t require big gestures — just the right spaces.
A nesting box is a home, a shelter, and a starting point. 🐦🌱

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