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Some of My Favorite National Wildlife Refuge Photos

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I think most of you know how important our National Wildlife Refuge system is to me. After all, I have written several posts on wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Pass that my co-founder Ingrid Taylar and I have been encouraging for years. I hope you enjoy it. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Brazil’s Pantanal: A Birding Spectacle

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Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. Screamers are most closely related to waterfowl such as ducks and geese. The incredible lighting at dawn in the Pantanal is an experience in of itself. I must mention one thing.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Mandarin Duck – Aix galericulata. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Ash Creek Wildlife Area (LAS Co.). Ash Creek Wildlife Area (LAS Co.). Ash Creek Wildlife Area (LAS Co.). Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Ash Creek Wildlife Area (LAS Co.). 26 Oct 2019.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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Long-tailed Duck – Clangula hyemalis. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Indian Spot-billed Duck – Anas poecilorhyncha. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. American Black Duck – Anas rubripes. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Ruddy Duck – Oxyura jamaicensis.

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Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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There has been one for the last couple winters at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, but I don’t think anyone has gotten as close to it as I got to the one at the Queens Zoo. Mallard Complexity About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right?

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Maned Duck – Chenonetta jubata. Pacific Black Duck – Anas superciliosa. Hawaiian Duck – Anas wyvilliana. Indian Spot-billed Duck – Anas poecilorhyncha.

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