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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long. Prepared by the Audubon Society with statistics, Greeley was able to link bird protection to crop protection, making it a food conservation priority and thus a war issue.

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Is It So Hard To Understand Why Birders and Wildlife Conservationists Don’t Buy the Duck Stamp?

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Back in October of 2012, the USFWS published a document pertaining to recommendations 17 and 18 of their vision document titled “ Hunting, Fishing, & Outdoor Recreation: National Wildlife Refuge System.” It is only the growing number of birders, photographers and conservationists that need convincing.

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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. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades.

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eBird Economics: How Much Would You Pay to See Birds?

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Thus, there is no conventional market-clearing price for economists to observe, so it is much harder to document society’s collective overall willingness to pay. Birding opportunities are mostly “public goods,” rather than “private goods.”

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. The study used many species, good sample sizes, and is statistically convincing. I suspect social learning, well documented in birds.) During the former periods, we certainly came across animals, but rarely.

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Rare Birds of North America: A Book Review

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It is a book that embraces identification and analysis of avian rarities and vagrancy patterns throughout the United States and Canada with an enthusiasm and devotion to statistical, geographic, and ornithological detail that will both delight and challenge birders. First, what is a rare bird?

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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The New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC) documents 465 species of natural origin. The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution lacks the statistical density of the 1999 volume, but, at 308-pages and in paperback, it is portable. It’s a great reference book, but, I confess, a book I seldom use.