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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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In June, the 2018-2019 Federal Duck Stamp was released. Birders have been encouraged by the American Birding Association and others to buy Federal Duck Stamps. The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Of course, birders interested in contributing more concretely to the National Wildlife Refuge System should buy a Duck Stamp every year. Duck Stamps help conserve critical avian habitat regardless of who is in the White House. million; 45.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. by Kenn Kaufman.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Length varies, with high vagrancy family accounts like Anatidae (Swans, Geese and Ducks) and Laridae (Gulls, Terns, Skimmer) seven to ten pages long and non-migratory, sedentary families like Indicatoridae (Honeyguides) and Grallariidae (Antpittas), just a brief paragraph, sometimes just one or two sentences.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.” The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”