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Week 32: Idaho’s Teton Valley, and a visit to Jackson, Wyoming

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Our little adventure now moves us farther north, into Idaho’s Teton Valley area, and a visit to Jackson, Wyoming. The areas around this beautiful river, full of both fly-fishermen, and moose, provided nothing more than the usual Brewer’s Blackbirds, Osprey, Mallards Ducks , and a few Yellow-rumped Warblers.

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

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In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). The Laysan Duck is found on only two remote Hawaiian atolls, both NWRs.

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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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Why did the duck become a detective? Here are five birding jokes for you: Why don’t birds make good comedians? Because their jokes always “fly” over our heads! What do you call a bird that can fix anything? A “repairrot”! It always quacked the case! What do you call a bird that’s afraid to fly?

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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These are not all the essays–there are 22! is exceptional), the weaving in of historical birding literature, especially essays that highlight women birders.

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The “Birds” in the Brush

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One species, the Wyoming ground squirrel, spends only about three hours a day above the surface of the earth, and that only on days during the four months of the year when they are not hibernating. Almost the only universal thing that can be said about the ground squirrels is that they live on, and in, the ground.

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Little Big Year – Week 34: We visit Colorado and Texas

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With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. In the past, seeing some of these Ring-necked Ducks would have been rather scarce, so here is a shot of the small group that were on the larger pond.

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