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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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June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Leave the bad jokes to me, please. Must have been a camera fault.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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The two main areas, Greater Sundas and Wallacea, are separated by ‘Wallace’s Line,’ a boundary drawn in 1859 by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who realized that the two areas had totally different birds and animals. It includes articles by the authors too, in case you want to read more of their work.

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