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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

10,000 Birds

For comparison , the System is much smaller than the Bureau of Land Management (about 247 million) and the Forest Service (192 million), but slightly larger than the National Park Service (80 million). But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

.” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. The species name athertoni is derived from Lt. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time).

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