Cornell Lab of Ornithology filmmaker Gerrit Vyn has been documenting Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve’s birds and wildlife habitats for a documentary project, “America’s Arctic.” In the wake of a Biden administration announcement blocking oil and gas development in the region, images and video assets are available for media use.

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Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology says birds striking buildings is a primary source of bird population declines and should be addressed.

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Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the United Nation's first-ever report on the state of migratory species.

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Wildlife experts Amandine Gamble, Krysten Schuler and Gemma Clucas are available to discuss the risk posed by bird flu in Antarctica.

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Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on migratory bird protections and the Biden administration's review of a Trump-era restriction to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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Amanda Rodewald, senior director of conservation science with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the impacts from a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that strips federal Clean Water Act protections for U.S. waters.

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Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of conservation science with Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, comments on a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule the excludes "incidental take" from Migratory Bird Treaty Act protections.

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Aaron Rice of Cornell University's Bioacoustics Research Program and John Fitzpatrick of the Lab of Ornithology say that a series of bills proposing to ban oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coastline would protect vulnerable and endangered wildlife.

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Amanda Rodewald and Brian Rahm comment on the rollback of the WOTUS rule that expanded protection for U.S. waterways.

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Aaron Rice, a research associate with the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on a decision by the Trump administration to allow five companies to conduct seismic tests that could harm thousands of whales and other marine life.

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