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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

10,000 Birds

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. A worrying trend. The White-crowned Forktail is the largest among them.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

Of course, there are some with little or no land purchased with MBCF funds, including Harris Neck NWR in Georgia (0.0%), Desert NWR in Nevada (0.0%), and Kilauea Point NWR in Hawaii (0.0%). For example, Kilauea Point NWR in Hawaii was created in 1985 with land transferred from the U.S. Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%.

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