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Accessibility Matters

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The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant. My impression is that it is a fairly safe area and families are a common sight on weekends, as are school groups. Thus, there is a good amount of online information for planning purposes. (I

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Shadows of Africa

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A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. Those that crossed the road first are waiting for the rest of the group at the other side. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. million hectares in 2007.

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