Michael Fry, director of conservation advocacy for the American Bird Conservancy, argues in an op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times that new guidelines currenty being drafted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to protect migratory birds from potential impacts from wind energy development should be mandatory, not voluntary, as some have argued.
By Garrison Frost
November 02, 2009
A New Colony of Caspian Tern Decoys on Aramburu Island
Richardson Bay Audubon Center is attacting breeding pairs of Caspian Terns with these newly painted tern decoys—a strategy successfully used by previous tern relocation efforts.