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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

10,000 Birds

Virgin Islands , and the remote Pacific Ocean. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.

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