- Michigan guides offer tour to see the rare Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii). More info here and here.
- Colorado wildlife officials seeking landowner agreement programs to protect the Gunnison Sage Grouse (Centrocercus minimus) to help avoid listing it on the US Endangered Species List. It's already globally listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.
- Black-Throated Finch Recovery Team formed in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia to help recovery efforts of the Southern Black-throated Finch (Poephila cincta cincta). It was reclassified from vulnerable to endangered in February.
- New York park rangers looking for the person responsible for killing a federally protected Piping Plover. They are asking for people with information to contact the National Park Service.
- New Jersey Audubon Society holds its 22nd annual World Series of Birding. Last year, about 70 teams sighted 272 species of birds in the 24-hour period.
- Daily Record columnist recounts her saving of a hawk from its would-be meal, a Texas Rat Snake.
- Peregrine Falcon feared poisoned after laying eggs at Hanson quarry in Clee Hill, near Ludlow, Shropshire in the UK.
- Illinois couple donates pair of endangered Red-fronted Macaws to Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
- Game wardens seize thousands of black-market birds in Rio Claro, Trinidad & Tobago raid.
- Thieves return African Grey Parrot stolen from a home in North Carolina. It was extra special to the owner because it imitated her late husband's voice.
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