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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. Because ingestion of spent lead shot has been documented to cause acute health problems in wildlife (most notably death), use of lead shot has been increasingly restricted over the past few decades. North American breeding bird survey annual summary 1989, 3 US Fish & Wildlife Service.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The cats were eradicated by 1991, which left the mice population to go unchecked.

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Birding California: A Regional Primer

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the same few states always come to mind first…Alaska, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, CA. Riparian areas and springs can yield Lawrence’s Goldfinch , and Brown-crested Flycatcher is a local breeder. When one thinks of taking a birdcation somewhere in the U.S., Northeastern California.