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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

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New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The bear hunt, set to take place from Dec. Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. That really sucks. It's a cull to "control the population."

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You Are What You Eat: A Flicker Mystery Solved

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bearing some orange feathers? (As In a press release, lead author Jocelyn Hudon from the Royal Alberta Museum commented, “At one point considered valuable wildlife habitat and widely disseminated, the naturalized Asian bush honeysuckles are now considered invasive and undesirable in many states. As in the photo above, courtesy of C.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, 296 pages. Hoopoes do come up in the chapter on bacteria–Whittaker cites a series of “important” research studies out of Spain that she and co-investigator Kevin Theis find insightful and inspiring. Freeman, 2006, full text available on Internet Archives, [link]. ISBN-10 ? : ?

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

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Three Impressions

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I may try to use it in the field the next time, but am still suspicious of it: I find it faster to write down a name code (in my case, the first three letters of a genus and the first three letters of a species name) plus a figure, than to press the touch screen. and entering observations into the eBird application on my smartphone.

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Our Audubon Chapter Campout at Lassen Volcanic National Park

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You would be hard pressed to miss the boisterous Steller’s Jay ( Cyanocitta stelleri ). The park is home to approximately 57 species of mammals ranging is size from the tiny shrew to the North American black bear. Note the remaining flesh colored gape below the eye at the corner of the beak.