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Returning to St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

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Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Here, birds make up only some of the wildlife sightings. A raccoon investigates crabs on the mud flats. Marks, which covers 68,000 acres in Florida. Marks National Wildlife Refuge appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The sun sets over the St.

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill.

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