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	<description>Boreal Songbird Initiative Blog</description>
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		<title>Keep your eye (and ears) out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don’t normally post more than once a day on the blog but this just came through on one of the listserves from my friend Bill Evans from Ithaca, NY, about what may be a massive southward nocturnal migration of Boreal birds that will take place in southern Canada and the eastern U.S. over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=585</link>
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		<title>A Trip Through the Congo</title>
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One of the Congo River&#8217;s famous barges.
Credit: Julien Harneis (via Wikimedia Commons)
This incredible audio series recently aired on National Public Radio about a river journey through the Congo Basin, one of the Family of Five—the Earth’s last five large blocks of unfragmented forest, of which Canada’s Boreal is one of the largest. Although river transportation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=580</link>
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		<title>The Role of Canada’s Forests and Peatlands in Climate Regulation</title>
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Intact  natural  forests are vital to climate regulation.
Credit: Garth Lenz
Until quite recently, a major factor increasing global warming problems had been largely ignored in the debates and discussions around climate change and what to do about it.
Emissions from land-use change, which mainly come from industrial development such as logging, mining, peat extraction and draining, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=575</link>
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		<title>A Personal Account from the Gulf</title>
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Lesser Yellowlegs heavily rely on the Gulf Coast for wintering habitat
Credit: Glen Tepke
We&#8217;ve posted a couple times on the likely effects the Gulf oil spill will have on migratory birds (here and here), who will soon be flooding the Gulf in large numbers for both wintering habitat and stopover habitat for those en route to destinations further [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=570</link>
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		<title>An Unknown Fate</title>
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Green-winged Teal
Credit: Tye Gregg, Ducks Unlimited
You might recall we did a post a while back on the negative impacts the Gulf Coast oil spill could have on migratory birds. We recently submitted and published another piece on the Ducks Unlimited website highlighting these threats, which include direct contact with oil, contaminated habitat, and weakened food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=561</link>
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		<title>A Mushuanipi Adventure</title>
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Credit: Jeff Wells
My trip to the place the Innu call Mushuanipi on the George River in the Innu lands of northern Quebec was amazing! Flying for seven hours in a small Cessna float plane from near Quebec City all the way to the George River gave an incredible opportunity to see a vast transect of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=557</link>
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		<title>Hooked on Labrador Parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of our friends at the Canadian Boreal Initiative (our Canadian partner and ally) recently embarked on a trip to Labrador&#8217;s Boreal Forest. Specifically, they were visiting the newly announced Mealy Mountains National Park and adjacent Eagle River proposed provincial waterway park.
Here&#8217;s a map of the two areas from the Globe and Mail:

CBI&#8217;s Larry Innes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=550</link>
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		<title>Headed North, Way North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all -
I thought I would provide you with a brief update from Jeff about his trip up to Northern Quebec this week (he tried to write something before heading up but packing and last-minute details got in the way!). This short update via phone messages he left:
Early Sunday morning Jeff began the long drive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=546</link>
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		<title>More from James Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a week ago we posted an update from Ron Pittaway, who has been writing up the bird counts from Jean Iron up in in the James Bay region of Canada and posting them on the Ontario Birding listserv. Jean is part of a group that heads up to this remote part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=540</link>
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		<title>What to do with pigeon geese?</title>
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While this Canada Goose lives and migrates in the wild, certain sub-populations have sprung up in urban areas and have become quite the nuisance.
Credit: Ashley Hockenberry
While most Canada Geese spend the spring and fall migrating back and forth between their winter and summer habitat, some sub-populations of the Canada Goose have sprung up in many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=535</link>
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