Rat team airlifted to Scots island to save birds
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rat catchers flew to a remote Scottish island on Tuesday for fear the rodents might come ashore from a wrecked Spanish trawler and devastate vulnerable sea bird nests.
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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Two rare species of wild bird are doing well in Scotland despite falling numbers in the rest of Europe.
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For the first time in nearly a half-century, puffins are returning to Ailsa Craig. The Scottish island is already well-known in the sport of curling as world's the best source of curling stones.
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People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity.
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By Tom Uhlenbrock  Editor's note  This story was written before 17 whooping cranes were killed in severe Florida storms recently. The birds were part of Operation Migration, a project to restore a migrating flock from Wisconsin to Florida.
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Urgent action is needed to prevent further declines in albatross and petrel populations, wildlife groups recommend.
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An army of volunteers cleared bags of litter from a popular beach during a clean-up drive.   Youngsters to grandparents headed to Saltburn beach on Saturday to take part in the Adopt a Beach event organised by the Marine Conservation Society.
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RAF helicopter crews help rescue more than 60 villagers after a Worcestershire river breaks its banks.
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ELYRIA, Ohio - Jennifer Mitchell's apartment is full of rats, and that's exactly how she wants it. Mitchell runs a rat rescue mission, caring for dozens of rats from people who get overwhelmed when their pet rodents have multiple babies.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Animal control officers found more than 80 birds inside a home filled with bird droppings and have ordered the owner to find new homes for them...
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Federal wildlife officials released a long-range plan Monday for removing a tiny bird that nests on West Coast beaches from Endangered Species Act protections by 2047 with the help of volunteers from the Audubon Society, the Boy Scouts and other nonprofit groups.
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As part of continuing efforts to save the endangered whooping crane, costumed scientists today began leading 18 of the birds on a 1,200-mile (1,900-kilometer) annual migration south for the winter.
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Fifteen sea eagle chicks aged between four and eight weeks are being flown to RAF Kinloss today by the Norwegian Air Force, as part of a plan to reintroduce them to the Scottish landscape.
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By Murdo MacLeod  HEBRIDEAN crofters armed with old salmon nets are defying Atlantic storms which threaten to wash their island away.
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Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day.
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A death sentence hanging over hedgehogs on a remote Scottish island was lifted, after conservationists agreed to end an annual cull that has become a prickly issue among animal welfare groups.