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A Brant With Bling

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When I got home later that day I downloaded my photos and reported the band number to the feds , and then put the photos on the New York Birders Facebook page to ask if anyone knew what the weird little widget attached to the goose was. And, upon closer examination, it had a weird little device attached to the color band.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S.

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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At a minimum, there should be a free and downloadable (without the need for an email address) dedicated or special issue of Birding for new birders. Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Until now, it has only been open for hunters.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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Every Lynx & BLI field guide is accompanied by the checklist card with a link and your personal code to download the.pdf checklist that follows the same taxonomy as your field guide (and you would not want it any other way).

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