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Beats the Beltway: a review of Bruce Beehler’s book “Natural Encounters”

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And in April, he sees the return of the many species he has seen in that month in years past – but, also, weirdly, a Virginia Rail, a reclusive marsh bird, flopping around the sidewalk in downtown D.C. (the In addition to his D.C.

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Accessibility Matters

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A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Graphic artist Todd Oldham writes in the 2008 preface that this font is called “kismet”. I can’t find any kismet-titled fonts that are swirley.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. March 8, 2008 We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.

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

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A five-year study of the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail recently reported that the trail attracts more than 640,000 visitors annually, infusing more than $8.6 From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4 million into the state economy each year. 95% of these visitors plan to visit the Trail again.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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