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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. 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.

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Big Day on Cedar Key, FL

10,000 Birds

Though I had driven past the Lower Suwanee River National Wildlife Refuge a half dozen times in my trips about Florida, I had not yet stopped, and I hummed with excitement as we drove down one of the forested refuge roads. We had hit state and nationally protected areas, and now were ready for Cedar Key city gems.

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Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

10,000 Birds

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. Of course not! What do all these birds have in common?

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What is the National Bird of Aruba?

10,000 Birds

The added publicity – the bird now appears on Aruba currency and stamps – will draw attention to needed conservation and protection efforts. Though not based on the Aruba populations, the movie portrayed a group of friends from Florida trying to save Burrowing Owl habitat from destruction.

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No Other Way by Roger Real Drouin

10,000 Birds

A grail, of course, is not just a rare and interesting cup. Author Drouin is a Florida-based journalist, and I’ve taken the liberty of reading some of his nonfiction as well. The fact of this grail bird is vital to the whole story.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. My daughter was taking an evolutionary biology course at the University of Chicago and was given an assignment involving surveying Monk Parakeet nests in Hyde Park. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus). and Sam Logue.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

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And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.