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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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Texas Father & Son Sentenced for Wildlife Trafficking

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They were illegally bringing in deer from Arkansas. Tags: wildlife trafficking Arkansas Texas deer. Texas restricts deer importing.) Plus a little matter with stolen property.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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Unlucky Ducks, Lucky Penguins, and Good-Luck Ostriches

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near Little Rock, Arkansas, an oil spill has polluted a lake. Duck hunters and wildlife officials alike worry that the spill will affect both hunting season and migration. For starters, for some reason, hundreds of dead waterfowl have turned up in a Chinese river. Insert your Peking Duck jokes here.) And here in the U.S.,

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Ross’s Goose, the Little Snow Goose

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Waterfowl numbers at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex may exceed two million by December, after the wetland areas of the Klamath Basin and other areas to the north become frozen. Snow and Ross’s Geese winter there in the tens of thousands. www.youtube.com/watch?

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What does the Keystone XL Pipeline have to do with Birds?

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Just look at the recent spill in Arkansas. National Wildlife Federation. Then there is, as history shows, the certainty that there will be oil spills from the Keystone XL Pipeline across sensitive areas of the United States. Sierra Club. Friends of the Earth. National Resources Defense Council. League of Conservation Voters.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes locations in Utah ( Bear River MBR ), Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ), and Wisconsin ( Horicon NWR ). Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).