10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Bear River MBR (Utah): 158,000 visits generating $4.1 Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 Chincoteague NWR (Virginia/Maryland): 7,000,000; $390 million; 3,647. The individual reports provide additional information and more detailed breakdowns of the numbers. million in economic activity and 8 jobs. Billy Frank Jr.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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 ). Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Slightly larger than Wales and about the size of the US state of Maryland, this country’s lure is its 703 bird species and three dozen Albertine Rift endemics among them. and to get my bearings I need some, however rough sketch of the area. It may be so, yet I am a visual type (isn’t every birder?)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Then again, Geothlypis trichas was ever so briefly called the Maryland Yellow-throat , but cooler heads recognized how very common this warbler was. Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

It seemed as though “other species” referred mostly to species of hummingbirds until I came across some reports from a Listserv in Maryland of an exceptional TOWA, that was reported to be feeding from sapsucker wells. The sequence was repeated, but on the second occasion.

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