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Wild Mississippi

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In the newest mini-series, Wild Mississippi, viewers will get to see how the Mississippi river can both nurture and destroy. The show covers an entire year along the Mississippi, and shows the many challenges that the wildlife in the area deal with. The premiere miniseries event airs Sunday, February 12, 2012, 8 p.m. –

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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

The result is this large and handsome book, an homage, In the Footsteps of Audubon, with exquisite watercolors and entertaining and evocative writing. . His trip to Labrador was the subject of another fine book, Audubon: America’s Greatest Naturalist and His Voyage of Discovery to Labrador, by Peter B.

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Why Hawkwatching is So Awesome

10,000 Birds

Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. Identifying hawks in flight isn’t easy, that’s why there are any number of books dedicated solely to it. Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kentucky Dept.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

10,000 Birds

The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316). As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States.