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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. Hidden by camera angle is hitch on back for wildlife trailer.). Summer is high season.

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The Duck Stamp and Lack of National Wildlife Refuge Funding

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The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S. In Fiscal Year 2011: 46.5 million people visited refuges. Case in point.

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Is It So Hard To Understand Why Birders and Wildlife Conservationists Don’t Buy the Duck Stamp?

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Over the following thirty-seven years there has never been a concerted effort to promote what is still called the “ Duck Stamp ” by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to anyone other than hunters and philatelists. 30 million wildlife viewing visits. 30 million wildlife viewing visits.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. Salvin’s Prion.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of August 2013)

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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Lesser Yellowlegs on the famed East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It is a common bird but well worth watching and digiscoping for awhile. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of April 2013)

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He was walking along a trail at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when he saw a flash of yellow up ahead. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It’s nice to see that Red-breasted Nuthatches still haunt my home turf. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a total surprise.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of July 2013)

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Birding and wildlife watching can be, as we all know, a solitary activity. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. And our practices, though familiar to anyone in our phenologically-attuned culture, can seem strange, sometimes even threatening, to the uninitiated.

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