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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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Another Endemic Amazona

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I had experienced this species in much closer quarters before, on a previous sojourn on the island in 2010 I paid a visit to a local breeding facility; I even went trekking sans guide deep into the forest without much success save for one or two distant fly-bys.

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What is the State Bird of South Dakota?

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Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. Despite these robust numbers, their populations are declining on our continent, falling about 32% between 1966 and 2010. In Hawaii, they are found as high as 11,000 feet !

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Sandpiper Species Heading Towards Extinction

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In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120-220 pairs, a decline of 88%. During that time, adult survival appeared unchanged and breeding success was reasonable, but the recruitment of young birds back into the adult population was zero in all but one of the years studied.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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Gujarat, December 2010. Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing ( Vanellus gregarius ). CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry!

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The Danube Backwaters

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And that was the time when all 400 km2 were still open to annual rhythms of flooding and represented a famous waterbird hunting ground. In 2010 the League for Ornithological Action, a local NGO, initiated the protection of the Danube foreland , which was accepted by the authorities. Nevertheless, Nagy was right.

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Birding Flushing Airport

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Queens, New York, May 2010 At one time there was an airport in northern Queens called Flushing Airport. The early successional woodland and marsh both have Tree , Barn , and Northern Rough-winged Swallows and Chimney Swifts hunting for bugs over them and the aforementioned breeding birds are in evidence everywhere.