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		<title>A Man, a Cabin and One of the Largest New Mining Complexes on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday world-renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay came to Seattle at our invitation to talk about some of the emerging mining threats to the remote northwestern corner of British Columbia. The area was mostly untouched by human development until the past several years until an enormous number of large-scale mining projects, driven by rising gold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renowned Conservationist Shares His Tales of B.C.’s Impending ‘Gold Rush’ of Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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Aerial view of rivers converging in NW British Columbia.
Credit: Michael Fay 
We here at the Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) are proud to host internationally renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay on a speaking tour about a new ‘gold rush’ of mining development in the otherwise-remote northwestern corner of B.C. and the impacts it could have on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox Sparrows Galore</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Taiga Fox Sparrow
Credit: Andrew Aldrich 
I recently posted on the Maine Birding listserv a simple request for a Fox Sparrow photo I needed for a project and was amazed by the results. I received photos from 9 people from a variety of places around Maine. Rather than letting these offers go unused I thought I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenland anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1285</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across some relatively new papers I had not seen that shared some eye-opening new facts about migratory connectivity in some northern birds. A paper published in 2012 describes the results of a project that placed geo-locators (small devices that record day length information which can be used to calculate geographic location) on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Take on the George River Hunting Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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George River caribou herd
Credit: Valerie Courtois, Canadian Boreal Initiative 
As a follow up to our last post about the ever-dwindling George River caribou herd of northern Quebec and Labrador, we thought you might be interested in hearing another opinion on the matter. As you may or may not have heard, Labrador has recently issued a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caribou Face Tough Winter</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1267</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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Member of the George River caribou herd
Credit: Valerie Courtois, Canadian Boreal Initiative
Over the holidays Jeff posted a new guest blog on National Geographic about the plight of the George River caribou herd in northern Quebec and Labrador. This herd, once the largest in the world just decades ago, has plummeted to dangerously low numbers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Comes Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We received permission from Fletcher Smith of the Center for Conservation Biology to post the following update about Hope, a Whimbrel whose migration has been tracked via satellite for the past several years. We thank Hope for her years of service in helping to understand Whimbrel migration and wish her a happy retirement. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finch Forecast Points South</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1253</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Evening Grosbeak
Credit: D. Faucher, Ducks Unlimited 
Every other year on average, boreal breeding finches and sometimes other birds as well, push further south in late fall and winter into parts of the United States. This year is already shaping up to be a major “invasion” year for these birds in the eastern U.S. with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birds of Manitoba</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1242</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post by Christian Artuso of Bird Studies Canada. Over the past few years he has been helping to organize and develop the Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas, a comprehensive outlook of which birds breed in Manitoba and where. As Christian mentions below Manitoba has an extremely low population density, making the extraordinary volunteering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a fallout sounds like</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1240</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird Sounds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few mornings ago I stepped out the front door of my house in Maine. It was 5 AM and still dark outside but the sky was echoing with the flight calls of migratory birds. Rainy, foggy weather was causing migrating birds arriving from further north to come down to land as their neared the [...]]]></description>
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