📰 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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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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