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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. I vaguely recall seeing this survey at the time, but I do not remember whether I completed it, though I believe I did.)

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield. All rights reserved.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!). Don’t worry. There’s a lot in this book to digest and savor, even if you’re not a twitcher.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. In fiscal year 2017 , funds available to the MBCF totaled about $87 million. In June, the 2018-2019 Federal Duck Stamp was released. Aransas NWR (368 species and 42.7%

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