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First Post-COVID-19 Birding Trip: Wisconsin and Horicon NWR

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I settled on Wisconsin, which is home to one of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding that I have not visited: Horicon NWR. However, I had never actually visited a WPA, and Wisconsin has several relatively close to Horicon NWR. However, I had never actually visited a WPA, and Wisconsin has several relatively close to Horicon NWR.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Activities such as hunting, fishing, and trapping are categorized as “consumptive” uses. In contrast, consumptive uses were minor: fishing accounted for 10 percent and hunting was just 4 percent.

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Of Bird Diets, Dangers, and Delinquents

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Some jerk (I’d use a stronger word, but this is a family-friendly website) in Wisconsin is shooting raptors. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Maine, will use “nano-tags” to track migrating birds. Birding in the Bronx? Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary. Another study, led by the U.S.

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). Fish & Wildlife Service. Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Chinteague NWR (Virginia). Desert NWR (Nevada). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey). Harris Neck NWR (Georgia). Ding Darling NWR (Florida). John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania). Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii). Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas).

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 98.7%. How important are 10,000 or 100,000 or even 1,000,000 acres and where are those acres anyhow? Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Covered in fish slime! We had a fledgling Yellow-billed Cuckoo delivered in a glass of water,” said Marge Cahak Gibson in Wisconsin. “By “Thankfully the bird was alive, but he needed a lot of Dawn soap baths.” “ Herring Gull in a bait bin,” added Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. By a lawyer.”

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

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More than 50,000 Sandhill Cranes stop to feed while migrating during the fall and winter between Wisconsin and Florida. The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is currently receiving comments about this proposed season. The initiative for this hunt comes from a small group of hunters.

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