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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature.

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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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Not only did we not think about the impact of the Australian wildfires on wildlife, but we didn't see the AP story on our very own sidebar. The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. We are losers.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

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Wooden poles were first used to suspend electric telegraph wires along the tracks of Britain’s Great Western Railway in 1843, using a system patented by William Forthergill Cooke. In North America, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that up to 57 million birds perish every year in collisions with electrical utility lines.

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Use it or lose it?

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Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. Particularly extractive versus non extractive use.

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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“The Volkovs took their food seriously and once they began cooking were a near-unstoppable force” (chapter 13). There is a survival lesson here to, for both owls and humans, and I’ll leave that vague, so you won’t be ‘spoiled.’ Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people. 01, 2021.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Bund Baretha Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Bund Baretha Wildlife Sanctuary.

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