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MARCH 11, 2024

Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.” ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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JULY 2, 2021

I am hoping that there is an appreciative audience here, willing to learn a little about down-under birds and wildlife. The Banksia flowers are common in coastal environments in Australia and were among the first native plants collected in 1770 during Cook’s voyage up the Australian east coast.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

By designating more than 97 million acres for new parks and refuges, we are doubling the size of our National Park and Wildlife Refuge System. ANILCA created, consolidated, expanded, or otherwise protected numerous units of federal public land systems, including: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Around thirty miles from Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley lies the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Maybe I’m weird, but there is nothing I like better in a visitor center (aside from clean and comfortable restrooms) than a good taxidermy collection, and Lee Metcalf features a strong entry in this category.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) generally creates a formal plan to guide recovery efforts. 21.23 , which governs scientific collecting permits and under which the FWS issued the permit. Fish & Wildlife Serv., Fish & Wildlife Serv. For species listed under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 124

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. But that’s old news. billion (up 21%).

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JUNE 16, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is in the midst of overhauling its interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and it recently issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on its proposed interpretation. The public can comment until July 20, 2020. The Obama Administration adopted this interpretation in a memo.

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Industry Birds Laws Maryland 328

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently finalized a rule regarding its narrowing interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). During that time period approximately $105 million in fines and penalties were collected, mostly from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

This is a rather scattershot collection of aspirations, some of which are addressed by other, larger non-profits ( e.g. , conservation and education, the focus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and American Bird Conservancy ).

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Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. Someone should tell the police who is actually paying them.

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MAY 12, 2020

Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Measure 2A Parks and Open Space – Healthy Parks and Rivers for Everyone. – Operating and maintaining any related additional acquisitions and capitals improvements”.

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

Add 315 bird species, 42 species of mammals – including Vulnerable Irrawaddy and Endangered Ganges River Dolphins , 61 amphibians and reptiles – including Estuarine Crocodile , at least 150 species of commercially important fish and 334 plant species to the picture. Using cooking pots, the fishermen collected stained plant matter.

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 190

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Fish & Wildlife Service, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and others). Visit it to learn how to collect and submit data, how to identify Rusty Blackbirds and their preferred habitat, when the birds will probably be in your neck of the woods, and more. eBird will share the data with IRBWG and its partners (the U.S.

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Blackbirds Vermont Collecting Research 220

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APRIL 17, 2013

Fish and Wildlife Service caps at five the number of Golden Eagles that members of the Hopi tribe can collect from neighboring Navajo lands. These “allegedly artsy” Golden Eagles courtesy of Corey. … to perils associated with mankind. To wit: A ruling by the U.S.

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Eagles Bald Eagle illegal Killing 176

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APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. 3) Action : Identify demographic information that is currently being collected by e-stamp states and additional information required for improving sales.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Fish and Wildlife Service granted a permit March 9 to the Northern Arapaho Tribe allowing it either to kill or capture and release two bald eagles this year. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

He told me about last summer, when Bird Ally X received 246 Brown Pelicans covered not with petroleum, but with fish oil. Fisherman along California’s Redwood Coast are supposed to use fish-cleaning stations, where they clean their catch on large tables and place the rest in large containers. Naturally, this is not always the case.

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Pelicans Fish California Massachusetts 217

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APRIL 28, 2017

The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America. Fish and Wildlife Service. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. FWS calls WPAs the “Prairie Jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.”. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 118

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Besides his murrelet, Kittlitz collected the only known specimens of the Kosrae Starling , a lovely long-beaked black bird that deserved better. Fish and Wildlife Service. Likewise the Xantus’s Murrelet , named for John Xantus de Vesey, a Hungarian exile who discovered a number of birds in western North America.

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JULY 4, 2023

Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.” Individually, all of the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight.

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JULY 6, 2018

But “fish hawks” were impossible to ignore on Long Island, conspicuously perched atop their roadside nesting platforms high above the coastal saltmarshes and brackish cattail stands of Suffolk County, and – most importantly – easily spotted from the car.

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New York Falcons Fish New Jersey 100

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JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Curiously, in 1831, McCormick was appointed a surgeon on HMS Beagle under the command of Captain FitzRoy and he expected to put together a sizeable natural history collection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 181

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APRIL 17, 2012

We documented Least Terns fishing for their young in oil-contaminated water Likewise with Caspian Terns Several ospreys had visible traces of oil, a result of fishing in contaminated water May 7, 2010 The failed container dome is lowered onto the wellhead. Traces of hydrocarbon poisoning are showing up in fish species.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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APRIL 6, 2012

When I wish to entertain people with the eccentricity of my book collection, I don’t point out that I own As I Lay Dying AND Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , even though that’s a bit like keeping Prairie Falcons and Rock Pigeons in the same aviary.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. In fact Punta Cana is a shining example of how large hotels can conduct their operations in a sustainable manner whilst contributing significantly to the preservation of birds, wildlife and habitats. This is not a birding lodge. Far from it.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 194

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APRIL 4, 2014

Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species. I must mention one thing.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

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MARCH 7, 2011

Mixed macaws in flight (c) Tim Ryan Chris wanted me (and you) to know about Fauna Forever Tambopata (FFT), a long-term wildlife, ecotourism and biodiversity monitoring project based in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon. Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? The proposal from U.S.

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MARCH 11, 2011

I also like that 200-córdoba note, if every country had a note like that then I would cenrtantly collect them all! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. @YourBirdOasis: That would make sense… @Pat: It is a good pick, isn’t it? Nice post Corey!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 194

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APRIL 2, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint accont. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.

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JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. Then, after a well deserved cup of tea we boxed up all the guys that were able to be released and sent them on their way.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Previously common at its only known site, Lake Aloatra, into the 1930’s, the introduction of numerous exotic fish species and human disturbance led to massive population declines. Then in 1991, a fisherman on the lake caught a male in his fishing net. This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.

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MARCH 13, 2011

All of the shots in this post were taken on 1 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s West Pond as the sun was going down. If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! The proposal from U.S.

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MARCH 5, 2011

If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. This post has been submitted to Bird Photography Weekly #132.

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