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Birding or Birdwatching? A Backyard Realization

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Nothing was on my agenda for that afternoon. Ahab wasn’t fishing, and the guys in ‘The Big Year’ aren’t watching birds, they’re scouring North America in a ruthless bid to tick off more species than anyone else. The feeder dangles from a clothesline between two pine trees, beckoning a range of bird varieties.

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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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Interestingly, if this reading is correct, Sandburg sets up the man who is opposed to “doctrinaire&# behavior by birds as doctrinaire and by expressing support for l’art pour l’art , which could be seen as pushing an instructional agenda in the poem,sets himself up as didactic.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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It is now more important than ever to draw on the diverse group of refuge advocates around the country to safeguard America’s wildlife heritage 1. As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance.

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From Today's New York Times

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For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda. There are many of these, survivors of the industrialization of our food supply, in most cities and towns across America. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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

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The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted. to a high of 11%. I have provided plenty of facts.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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You may know (although probably not since you’ll likely reside in North America) that a Siberian Rubythroat showed up over the winter 2015/16 in a small village in the Netherlands, an extremely rare and highly sought-after vagrant from Siberia (duh!). Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. Federal water rights that underpin entire agricultural economies, and that are critical to some of the last family farms and ranches in America, will be in play. There are senators and congressmen voting to help states sell off public lands.

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