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Northern Pintails at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

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This blind in particular is usually good for ducks, geese, waders and shorebirds. As the sun rose somewhere behind those thick clouds, it began to get a bit lighter on the water and I got some pretty good shots of what I think is one of the most handsome of dabbling ducks, the Northern Pintail ( Anas acuta ).

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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Or pig, or duck, or fish. When it comes to the legislation ( which may or may not mean anything for dogs and cats ), Cohen sides with the people who recognize that cats and dogs are no different from chickens and geese. His "refuge" could easily taken the form of the Sichuan noodles he likes, sans dog.

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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 Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Auto-pilot Conservation in the Era of Trump

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Among them are Federal Duck Stamps and related waterfowl conservation programs. There are several funding sources for the MBCF, but two predominate: (1) Duck Stamp sales, and (2) import duties on arms and ammunition. Duck Stamps and import duty contributions were similar, at about $34-38 million each. It also approved $15.1

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