21.   A decision last year to upgrade the area from a provincial to a national wildlife reserve should mean increased funds to protect the birds, Quy added.

22.   A group of environmentalists contend that in the choice between generating cleaner power from windmills and protecting the endangered California condor, the bird must be protected.

23.   According to the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, an international treaty called the Canadian Migratory Birds Convention Act obliges Canada and the United States to protect the birds.

24.   Berger was charged with violating federal laws that protect the birds, but a jury acquitted him of all but a misdemeanor charge of improper use of a pesticide.

25.   But after the banning of DDT and other efforts to protect the birds, the eagles began to make a comeback.

26.   Brinker keeps the name of the island secret to protect the birds from their only potential predators, human beings.

27.   If the poisoning was intentional, the farmer could face federal charges since migrating birds are protected by federal law, Parham said.

28.   Justice Department lawyers said migratory birds are protected by international treaties and that loss of wetlands is a national problem.

29.   The two countries started the joint survey based on the Russo-Japanese treaty on protecting migratory birds, and will continue it until February next year.

30.   Moonstone was a premier nude beach in New England until the shoreline was closed to protect the birds.