Bird Flu tops NIPA Agenda
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Bird Flu tops NIPA Agenda
Elimar Pigeon Services – Dec 21, 2006
Peter Bryant of the RPRA is in constant contact with Government agencies and is well pleased with progress. Clearly if there are AI outbreaks in areas whether the UK or the continent then racing training and gatherings will be restricted under the AI contingency plans (much like we have for Newcastle Disease outbreaks). ld bird racing will start on 14th April with the B Nat flown on Friday 29th June young birds will start on 14th July and the YB Nat will be flown on 25th August. With the RPRA needing a Permit booked for racing from France it was necessary to make a decision on the venue to be used for the B Nat. The Sect C Meeting had put forward a race programme that included Lamballe and this would go forward to the AGM. For this year the Committee decided to stick with St Malo which has provided good results including 2006. The new Yearling Nationals which were held mid-week last year had a very poor entry and will need looked at in more detail… For this year the Committee decided to stick with St Malo which has provided good results including 2006. The new Yearling Nationals which were held mid-week last year had a very poor entry and will need looked at in more detail. Some discussion was held on the printing of Diplomas. The layout used last time proved to be unsatisfactory to the majority of the members. With the number of races now flown especially in old birds it was getting very hard to list all winners and to publish a separate pen Diploma for ld & Young Bird racing would cost double. Mid Antrim Combine Diplomas carried a lot of race detail and the costing is to be obtained from their printer.
FLCK SHCK
New York Post – Dec 21, 2006
The uncommon included a Rusty Blackbird a Palm Warbler two Great Blue Herons and a Kingfisher. "It's surprising to most people that there's such a variety" said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "To those in the know Central Park is a great bird sanctuary. " The bird world was aflutter with excitement in 2004 when one astounded team in the 107th count observed a boreal owl one of the most-wanted species on most North American birders' lists. Benepe said that birdwatchers flocked to the city from New Jersey and Pennsylvania in hopes of catching a glimpse of the rare owl. Some stayed for weeks. This year's birdwatchers had to content themselves with the more common species… Some stayed for weeks. This year's birdwatchers had to content themselves with the more common species. Topping the list were: 923 house sparrows; 878 rock doves (pigeons in common parlance); 831 herring gulls; 548 white-throated sparrows and about 500 common grackles who soared through the park during the time of the count. Among the standouts were 56 northern cardinals known to most people as red cardinals. Gelb said weather is the greatest variable in the count which began in 1900 and is now a worldwide institution. "This is a warmer year" he explained. "Birds we would normally expect to be here now from places more northern than Central Park it might cause them to delay their migration.
Winter Program takes flight at Power Plant
Toronto Star – Dec 21, 2006
Urban wear and tear on real little critters is not half so pretty. Luis Jacob’s From Stream to Golden Stream (2006) riffs on the flight of 60 sculpted geese in Michael Snow’s Flightstop installation in the Eaton Centre. With Jacob there are 30 stuffed pigeons suspended from a Power Plant ceiling. Seen from the gallery’s second floor landing Jacob’s handsomely arranged flock seems to have swooped in from Lake ntario. Seen from directly underneath however and one begins to ponder the offal problem suggested by the Toronto artist’s title. Then there’s the infinity of fierce angular black birds fluttering through Carlos Amorales’s Useless Wonder (2006). Although based on The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket the 1838 Edgar Allan Poe adventure yarn Amorales’s animation – the Amsterdam-based artist’s Canadian debut – owes more to Vincent van Gogh’s ominous late painting Wheat Field with Crows (1890) with a nod to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds.
Armoured core- ET Travel-Features-The Economic Times
Economic Times – Dec 21, 2006
Thesetrails as all good jungle trails should be are unpaved and have the leastadverse impact on the environment. A Red Jungle Fowl scurried across our pathfollowed by his dowdy brown harem. And then there was the brilliant Emerald orBronze-winged pigeon. emerald on top bronze below… like an iridescentzardozi embroidery comealive. Kaziranga is popularwith bird-watchers and on a stretch of water bordered by water hyacinth we sawa line of pelicans patrolling like solemn sentries. They?re socialfishers encircling fish driving them into the shallows and then scooping themup into the large bags under their bills. But they were not performing for usthat evening.
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