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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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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. The California Condor has a story well-known by anyone with an interest in birds.

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I’m A Seattle-Bound Birder

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What can I, as a birder who has birded the northeastern United States and southern California rather extensively, hope to add to my life list? And where will I be going that will have the birds I want to see and be acceptable destinations for a non-birding family? What other birds that I have seen before will I be excited to see again?

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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We don’t simply learn that Great Horned Owls sometimes eat fish, we learn that in northeastern California, they eat Tui chub and in Pennsylvania they eat brown bullhead catfish. Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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South Florida Specialties Birding

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On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. We immediately headed to an undisclosed location where Carlos had breeding Mangrove Cuckoos staked out. Carlos even had a cooler in the trunk to keep the pie cool until we met up with my family!

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Cruel of Beak and Bottomless of Maw

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My own encounters with the Western Gull were in the same location that Dawson met them, the Farallon Islands in California. It is at the breeding season, however, that the Western Gull accomplishes real mischief. Some gulls are particularly good at hunting the Ashy Storm-petrel, a species which also has its stronghold on this island.

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