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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

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and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. FWS issued a recovery plan in 1991 and a five-year review that proposed downlisting to “threatened” in 2007. Moreover, management to control parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird has improved vireo breeding success. It winters on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits.

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The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You!

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This next map is data from 2007 through 2008. They feed from grain storage and spillage areas, livestock yards, and bird feeders. In warm climates they can breed year round. And the last one shows the stats from 2013 to the present. Like most dove species, Eurasian Collared-Doves are prolific breeders.

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