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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. 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. Why would you open it up to hunting?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2015)

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I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. They are a graceful tern and Corey appreciated watching it hunt, feed, and fly over the marshes. This weekend delivered the longest days of the year to those of us on the top half of the world. How about you?

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. And you might think you know them but you might be mistaken.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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But, for those owls who are more well-known and easier to find, we have the delight of seeing them in full-body portraits, perched in their habitat, with mates, as nestlings, hunting and flying, in concealment postures and eating prey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 13, 2015). by Scott Weidensaul. Peterson Reference Guides series.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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She is an excellent mother, managing not only to feed her four large cubs, but their visiting father One-eyed who comes by every now and then (he has two more families and being the good father he is, visits them all regularly, usually around lunch time). Very dusty Swarovski CLs.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de OrnitologĂ­a (SEO). Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2015. There is even room for notes. by Nils Navarro.

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