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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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in 2011*) came about. It’s about packaging, marketing, distribution, transportation, and lobbying. Bird Feeding in the Twenty-First Century: Experiences and Expectations,” the chapter in question, has other disappointing omissions. The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36,

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. No birds died during the translocation and the one-year survival rate was 58% in the 2011 and 96% in the 2012. The photos are from the USFWS Flickr album of the initial translocation in 2011. and Antony W.