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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. for migratory birds. The proposal from U.S.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? Street, N.W.

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