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

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However, Kirtland’s Warbler is no longer listed on the Endangered Species Act, as it was delisted in 2019. The ChatGPT summary is brief, includes relevant information about when to visit and which habitat to focus on, and it appears accurate. That seems like a fact ChatGPT should get correct.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. For example, even if nobody visited Aransas NWR in Texas, it would still provide virtually all of the wintering habitat for the endangered Whooping Crane. Bear River MBR (Utah): 158,000 visits generating $4.1 Billy Frank Jr. million; 111 jobs.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He can do so in one of two ways: either by heeding the advice of scientists calling for the polar bear to be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act; or, at the very least, by delaying the lease sale while the complexities of the proposed listing are sorted out.