Ducks Endangered Species Geese Protection 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2016
Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2017
The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a critically endangered species that I came agonisingly close to seeing but didn’t. Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species. A new duck! See, according to eBird, that isn’t a species. How awesome.
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