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Birding from New York to North Carolina

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This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. Last year it was New Providence in the Bahamas. To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”

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Searching for Shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

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It being mid-August in New York City there is one place where I have to be as often as I can. That place is the fabled home of shorebirds, both common and rare, the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. American Avocet on Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond. I’m so glad I’m not a shorebird.

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An April Weekend of New York City Birding

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That means that as of right now the yardstick I am holding does not exist because there are no yard sticks that are zero long. That will be much better, right? Besides, suffering brings birds, right? I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium.

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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. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway

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… Tags: brazil , giveaway • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Quincy, Massachusetts Man Deserves Kudos About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.

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