10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77. It appears that the egret is holding its own.

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Wildlife San Francisco Sacramento North Dakota 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2018

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 will close with a video from Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.

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Wildlife Sacramento Bald Eagle Falcons 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 132

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. When a tree filled with nestling Cattle Egrets collapsed, 60 orphans took up temporary residence in the house.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

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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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. People don’t respect wildlife. The persecution of these apex predators, especially wolves , is rampant among some hunters and cattle ranchers. A newly created U.S. Why is this happening?

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 108