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Birdland on the Niagara
This is where the Buffalo Harbor Development Commission, the Niagara Greenway Commission and Higgins' waterfront planning come into play. It is essential that the NRIBA designation is understood and addressed by all planning agencies and decisions. It is critical that the threats to the area are understood and addressed. Appropriate development that recognizes both the fragility of the area and the global conservation consequences related to its stewardship and development should become a baseline indicator from which all planning grows.
Editor's Note: With at least five test towers already standing, wind developers in concert with local advocates are attempting to install hundreds of industrial wind turbines in the Niagara region. The threat to this fragile area is real. Both of the photos included in the text are available in the NWW photo library as Birdland on the Niagara 1 & 2.
December 18, 2005
by Jay Burney
in The Buffalo News
Each autumn, beginning in late November, a spectacular and globally important natural occurrence unfolds on the Niagara River.
The event is the annual gull migration that brings as many as 19 species of gulls, in one of the world's largest concentrations of these birds, literally to our doorsteps. This is a significant ornithological event. On the entire continent of Australia, only three species of gulls have been recorded. In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, only 11 species of gulls have ever been seen. Remarkably, some of these same gulls that breed in the Arctic refuge travel through... [continue via Web link]
The event is the annual gull migration that brings as many as 19 species of gulls, in one of the world's largest concentrations of these birds, literally to our doorsteps. This is a significant ornithological event. On the entire continent of Australia, only three species of gulls have been recorded. In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, only 11 species of gulls have ever been seen. Remarkably, some of these same gulls that breed in the Arctic refuge travel through... [continue via Web link]
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