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How did the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale get its name?

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Today, there are about 350 North Atlantic right whales, and the species is no longer hunted. However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. By the early 1900s, there were fewer than 100. Every individual matters in the fight to save them.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature.

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Weddings and Birds

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She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. Though they are common in Florida, this was the first I had ever seen. Boat-tailed Grackle.

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Come@Me: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls

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There are many species that captivate those looking at them: Burrowing Owls , Barn Owls , a variety of fishing-owls, Stygian Owl , Elf Owl , the list goes on and on. Snowy Owl irruptions are relatively predictable and often huge, with birds arriving as far south of their normal breeding range as Florida and the Bahamas.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. In the spring (when they look like they do — the males, that is — in the photo on the left, above) they fly more than six thousand miles from the Amazon Basin to the Arctic, via Florida and Ohio.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. Lucky and his instructor were successful in bluffing this particular bear, yet the very next year in the same area, Hoshino was killed by a Brown Bear. Cactus finch, Geospiza species. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens. Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part. The group has a worldwide distribution; 28 species living and two additional extinct. It draws a more or less firm line between those species in the Old World and those in the New, however.

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