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Spring Migration on South Padre Island, Texas

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Birders explore these migrant traps, which are an oasis of food, water, and shelter, to see if anything has been blown in. We were fortunate to be down in the Rio Grande Valley to guide at the Spring Chirp Birding Festival based out of Weslaco and had scheduled an extra bird-chase day before flying home to Oregon.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The only answer I can come up with is that they collect fees from those users and view them as their only source of revenue. This is an Urban Refuge !

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