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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. The System also helps implement the Endangered Species Act and other federal conservation laws.

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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 Here, Slaght presents his data analysis and his conservation plan for Blakiston’s Fish Owl. The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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