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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Others may be perfect for a free morning on a business trip to Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, or Las Vegas. Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon). Some are great for a specific bird, others for thousands of birds, and others during a particular season. Some just seem to be rarity magnets. Harris Neck NWR (Georgia).

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California’s Autumn Seas

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For whatever reason, however, yesterday on my way to work my mind wasn’t with our upcoming spring, but with September’s in California. I saw a wagtail there once, which was exceptionally cool for California (I’m told). California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. And there where whales.

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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After some hours of recording in northern California, and then, painstaking analysis and listening, he determined the number to be 37, at which point he, palpably exultant, announces to the reader: “a decades-long quest fulfilled.”. Boston, New York. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __. By Donald Kroodsma.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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Groups across the country, including Project Coyote in California, are fighting similar battles. On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo.

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Pet Love Closes its Doors in Beverly Hills

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The Beverly Center, an upscale shopping mall in Beverly Hills, California, has announced it will terminate Pet Love’s lease sometime in the next few months. If a pet store can be closed down in the iconic Beverly Center, it can happen anywhere in the country – New York, Chicago, Boston and other large metro areas.” This is awesome.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. Please take time to read it, and if you are in California, get in touch with your representative and encourage them to support this if you believe it’s a good thing. I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Laws Guide to Drawing Birds

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Matthew began birding (and drawing birds) as a boy in Boston, during the Great Blizzard of 1977. He teaches Advanced Birding at the Palo Alto Adult School in California, regularly leads field trips throughout the state, and is a pelagic trip leader out of Monterey Bay and Half Moon Bay. .”

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