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The Once and Future Oriole

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Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had. Because sometimes a Bullock’s Oriole just flies over your head, on a day when you’re only vaguely expecting any such thing, and then perches at the tip of a pathside tree and starts singing.

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Canadian Sentenced for Ivory Smuggling

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Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife officials from Environment Canada and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio. Tags: ivory canada us fish and wildlife africa smuggling us. The sentence follows a long running international investigation by special agents of the U.S, Siyam plead guilty in a U.S.

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German Birding Blitz

10,000 Birds

Andy Avram is a lifelong resident of northeastern Ohio, just east of Cleveland. From the time he can remember, every camping, hiking, or simple trip outside was focused on finding wildlife with herps, mammals, birds and native fish as his primary interests.