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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

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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. The Laysan Duck is found on only two remote Hawaiian atolls, both NWRs. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.

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New Year’s Day Birding at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary

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The best place I could come up with that was within a short drive of my in-laws’ place in Yorba Linda was the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in nearby Irvine, only a quick twenty-minute drive away. The goose flies out early with a flock of Canada Geese so if you want to see it get there at or shortly after dawn!

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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The area has a law in place to prevent attracting deer, you can have a bird feeder, but you can’t offer food on the ground. Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night. Grackle Guy?

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Foie Gras to Be Banned in California

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It was also a perhaps belated realization by these chefs and their fans that a law signed eight years ago is truly taking effect and is about to change the way they do business drastically, putting California on the front lines of the battle about force-feeding ducks and geese to produce the silky liver delicacy.

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. Additionally, funds from Duck Stamps allow the System to gradually expand , as FWS purchases land and obtains conservation easements from willing sellers. (A

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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry

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Here’s a fun one from a company called Advanced Weapon’s Technology.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it. Foie gras is the diseased liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through pipes shoved down their throats.