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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. The key point is that Refuge System is perhaps the most important conservation program in the United States.

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