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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

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Jochen: I like that name and I might just have to adopt it. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Wicked, right?

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. They are commonest where they are intensively protected and managed, but these places are often remote and hard to visit.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Asides Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Wicked, right?

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Getting out of line

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By building nests out over the swamp, the birds benefit from the protection offered by the alligators in deterring predators such as raccoons and snakes. The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Spotted Thick-knee

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The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Wicked, right? • Explore These Related Posts World Wetlands Day on the Highveld Bush Stone Curlews.Or

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Orange-headed Thrush

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The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella. Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Isn’t that neat? The proposal from U.S.

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