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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

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Administrative Procedure for Birders: Duck Stamp Rulemaking

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For example, the process applies to, among other things, the listing (and delisting) of species under the Endangered Species Act and interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The comment period closed on March 16, 2020. The online public comment process is quick and easy.

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