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May 24, 2007 - Today at the SAMPAA CONFERENCE (Science and Management of Protected Areas Association) at Acadia University, Sherman Boates of N.S. Dept. of Nat. Resources told me that recently COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) has designated both the CHIMNEY SWIFT and COMMON NIGHTHAWK as formally THREATENED, thanks to their long-term and substantial population declines over the past 40 years or so. Here is the precise wording concerning the above new designations, from the COSEWIC Web-site, press release dated April 2007: ³Bird Declines Unexplained ³COSEWIC expressed alarm that aerial-feeding, insect-eating birds are disappearing. Both Common Nighthawk and the Chimney Swift were assessed as Threatened. Disturbingly, the cause of these global declines in these, and related birds, is unclear. Sharp declines over 70% in the Red Knot, a migratory shorebird, are also cause for concern - one North American population of this species was deemed Endangered.²
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