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Spotting the 4 Eagles Of Alaska

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Spotting an eagle in Alaska? Let’s dive into the ultimate guide to spotting these magnificent creatures in Alaska. Note, this list is based on the eagles provided by the official list provided by the University of Alaska Museum Department of Ornithology. Status In Alaska: Breeding resident. It is recent as of 2024.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. The bulk of wilderness is in Alaska (more than 57 million acres), most of it designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980. The most recent additions were approximately 1.3 Dingell Jr.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5

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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

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The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. The population is not directly dependent on human support. The Carolina Parakeet was extinct by 1918 and extinct in the wild by about 1904.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.

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