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Pied Oystercatcher chick-cautiously optimistic

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Gantheaume Point offers both food and protection for a young Pied Oystercatcher chick, which is very important when they are unable to fly. The juvenile Pied Oystercatcher gives you a glimpse into its development when it stretches a wing out and when it stands close to its parents for size comparison.

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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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). Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before. For the many breeding birds facing high nest-predation pressure, enemy-free space can be gained by nesting near more formidable animals for physical protection.

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Flock to Marion

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This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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Cute of the Day: the bilby!

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Outside of Australia, the bilby is a little-known animal that occasionally draws comparisons to Star Wars’ Yoda character. In Australia, however, the endangered marsupial is making a comeback, due in large part to a recently launched “Save the Bilby&# fund. Read all about Bringing Back The Bilby in this article.

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Bird Watching Botrosa Road

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In comparison to this sustainable activity, we witnessed many areas of forest that where owned by colonos and all of the forest had been cut to give way to grass or agricultural land. This process has been going for more than years and currently they have penetrated half of their forest.

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An Unfortunate Pewee

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PCBs have been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency since the 1970s, but due to their chemical makeup, can persist in the environment for many years. Here is a normal-billed Eastern Wood-Pewee for comparison. The bird looks deceptively happy from this angle. And yes, it has a vest, and no it is not an Olive-sided Flycatcher.