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A New Wildlife Refuge Pass: Fellow Birders, Help Us Help You

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Since we first launched the Wildlife Conservation Stamp Project, we’ve made our case to thousands of birders and photographers. Progress has been slower than we would like, but definitely not slower than we anticipated. We’re relaunching the project as the Wildlife Conservation Pass. WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK.

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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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Fish & Wildlife Service). 24-25), you’ll definitely want to hit up the island’s first-ever birding festival. The festival includes a chance to check out the brand-new Hawaii Island Coast-to-Coast Birding Trail , which stretches from Kona to Hilo, as well as to hop on board a pelagic cruise.

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Don’t Mess with the Great Texas Birding Classic

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Can you get your head around a bird race that gives you free run of National Wildlife Refuges like Aransas, Brazoria, Attwater, Anahuac, Santa Ana, and Laguna Atascosa as well as jewels such as Big Thicket, Bentsen-Rio Grande, Bolivar Flats, High Island, South Padre Island, and Zapata at the height of spring migration?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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The first two questions were never definitely answered. The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

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