Critter News

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. They say the tribe could raise captive birds, or accept eagle feathers or carcasses already available from a federal repository that collects birds killed by power lines or other causes.

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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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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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JULY 18, 2013

It turns out bis were raised specifically to be included in burial ceremonies as we know from the preponderance of ibis filled mummies at archeological sites in the area, and according to Mediterranean legend, the Southern Bald Ibis was the first bird released by Noah after the biblical flood. Southern Bald Ibis , photo by Adam Riley.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the highlights of the trip for me, and for some of the other media folks being hosted by the Fallon Convention and Tourism Authority, was a kayak tour of Tule Lake in the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge. Our guide, former wildlife refuge manager Mike Goddard, pointed out a pair of Cinnamon Teal in flagrante delicto.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The original specimens were collected in dense jungle, and the recent sightings in more open forest may represent suboptimal habitat. An individual was located in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary in the Thane district in 2014.” It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 17, 2009

All donations go to the National AAZK for distribution to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, Africa, the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia and the Bukit Barisan Seletan National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia. Raise $100 and get a t-shirt and entry into two door prize categories. Date: May 1, 2009. Time: 5:00pm-9:00pm.

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JULY 3, 2012

Photographs illustrate data collection: cannon nets capturing the birds, scientists and volunteers running to cover them and then place them in burlap cages, the weighing and banding and lately, for the Red Knots, fitting them with geolocators that, if recaptured, give a picture of the long-distance migratory movements of the bird.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

On the positive side however, a captive breeding program has been successfully initiated by WWT in partnership with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, The Peregrine Fund and the Madagascar Government.) A male Madagascar Pochard, one of the great bird rediscoveries of the past few years!

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JUNE 7, 2016

Jason’s first contribution tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System., The conservation groups raised a number of arguments, but the court ruled against them and in favor of BLM in every instance. while his second took a deep look at how many birders there really are.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds. The book’s organization of rare and vagrant birds is inconsistent and confusing. Is the bird pictured what the caption says it is?

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Among the 23,000 vertebrate specimens collected by the six-year expedition were many birds, but on returning to New York two years later, it became clear that none of their skins sported a feather remotely like the one Chapin had acquired. “But Curious as to the plume’s origins, the American immediately asked if he could keep it.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) will run over the winters of 2023/24 and 2024/25 to collect updated information on the numbers and distributions of these wintering gulls in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. One count I undertake every year is the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Third, Hawks in Flight was primarily illustrated by David Sibley’s excellent black-and-white drawings, supplemented with a collection of black-and-white photographs in the back of the book. Pat and Clay also have a blog that you may want to pursue, especially if you are interested in butterflies and wildlife gardening.

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JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

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JANUARY 1, 2019

Only, we didn’t shoot them and collect specimens at the end of the day.) Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed relocating the 14 Whooping Cranes that live in Kissimmee Prairie, which includes the pair I saw, and relocating them to Louisiana. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant. ” [[link].

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APRIL 7, 2015

De Roy is an incredibly accomplished wildlife photographer, writer and conservation advocate with a fascinating personal history; she gives us little glimpses of throughout her essays, and left me wanting to know more. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life.

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