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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. “By

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. ’ What was left to write about? And there are the birds.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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As a wildlife rehabilitator who has dealt with both the US Fish and Wildlife and our state’s Parks and Wildlife for over twenty years, I half-jokingly asked him what I thought was a “duh” question: “How frustrating is it to deal with governmental regulations concerning wildlife?”. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kentucky Dept.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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Those conditions shape entire ecological communities, which we birders tend to think of broadly as “habitat,” including the plants that birds need for shelter, nesting substrates, and food, and the other species that interact with birds in their environments, from predators to competitors to food sources like insects or fish.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Maybe it was a version of the Mississippi River, maybe it was a version of the Warren River, likely both. The tend to stay asea, bobbing and rolling in the surf, staying away form shore and presumably eating small fish. But now there is some research on that. That would of course require that fish lived in those lakes.)

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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a fish farm. a fish farm. Mississippi Kite – Ictinia mississippiensis. a fish farm. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Ujarrás–Lago Cachi overlook. 17 Feb 2017. Gray-headed Kite – Leptodon cayanensis. road to Playa Azul. 02 Jun 2017.

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