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The Duck Stamp and The Wildlife Conservation Stamp Living in Symbiosis?

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We have a simple solution to raise more money for the National Wildlife Refuge System. million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. The Duck Stamp has been around since 1934, nearly 80 years, and has raised over $800 million during that time.

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family. Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., March 10,2020.

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A Modest Proposal for a Wildlife Conservation Stamp

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(Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) But what about those of us who’d rather just look at ducks than shoot them? Where’s our duck stamp?

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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

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They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bob White

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There’s little doubt that these unwilling but plucky exiles have beaten the odds over the last few months, first evading the sights of eager autumn hunters, and then the jaws of hungry foxes and weasels, only to endure the many privations of the harsh and long North American winter eking out their survival in a strange and inhospitable landscape.

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Behold the Blue-footed Booby

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But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. They are daring divers, powerful underwater swimmers, and cooperative hunters. Perhaps that explains why the Galapagos Conservation Trust raises funds to help protect the Islands’ unique wildlife and habitat through the celebration of Blue-footed Booby Day.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes , endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked or Red-headed , restricted to Lower Guinea forests of Central Africa. However this classification is no longer widely accepted, and in my opinion quite correctly so.