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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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A Modest Proposal for a Wildlife Conservation Stamp

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Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) A mockup of what a Wildlife Conservation Stamp might look like.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2013)

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When citizens of the United States tout the superiority of our country, we tend to focus on debatable issues of culture, economy, and government. He was very pleased to see his first ever Rough-legged Hawk in Queens, a dark-morph bird hunting over the old landfill.

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

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The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1.

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I’m A Seattle-Bound Birder

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What can I, as a birder who has birded the northeastern United States and southern California rather extensively, hope to add to my life list? And where will I be going that will have the birds I want to see and be acceptable destinations for a non-birding family? Read on, patient reader, and learn.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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It’s probably on your mind too, especially if you live in the United States. Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO).

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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But, for those owls who are more well-known and easier to find, we have the delight of seeing them in full-body portraits, perched in their habitat, with mates, as nestlings, hunting and flying, in concealment postures and eating prey. taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It is not that kind of reference guide.