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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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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.

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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Re-introduction of the Red Kites in southern Scotland was started in 2003 with 40 birds released, for the most part in secret. I gave up on visiting the cave, and just watched this bird washing, preening and then jumping right in, and catch this small flat fish. When were visiting Smoo cave, this one was right in the cave entrance.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.

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Black-faced Spoonbill

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Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection. This happened in 2003 when 73 birds died from Avian Botulism. Captive breeding programs have not shown much success.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. The tend to stay asea, bobbing and rolling in the surf, staying away form shore and presumably eating small fish. Then one day they are gone.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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Sidebar sections consist of lists the species’ endangerment and protection status, if any; its reidential status in Britain and Ireland; measurements; habitats where the butterfly is likely to be found, look-alike species, and the scale of the photographs on the next page.

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