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JANUARY 9, 2012

An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. She said UF resisted releasing the records out of concern about the safety of researchers.

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MARCH 8, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida By James • March 8, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by shorebirds.

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MAY 20, 2023

Analysis : I have never seen a Kirtland’s Warbler, but this is consistent with the research I have done to fix that problem. Analysis : I haven’t actually done this and cannot confirm some of the details, but my research suggests that this would be the best plan. Grade: A. # # # Query: What are 5 good birding jokes?

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APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

While on a tour of Rookery Bay near the Florida Everglades, I was reminded of this lovely personality trait once more. Unlike many other estuaries in this part of Florida, Rookery Bay is protected by the Estuarine Research Reserve system, and remains almost entirely undeveloped.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

A friend was in Florida, and as people in Florida are wont to do, he taunted me with pictures of some good birds that I am not currently looking at. Finally, I was forced to do actual research. In this case, it was especially cruel because he posted a Limpkin , a bird I have never looked at. It’s just that simple.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Located in Florida: Today I was walking my dogs and noticed a big gathering of vultures surrounding a raccoon. Need some advice / help. At first appearance the raccoon seemed disoriented and extremely lethargic. I took the raccoon home.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? One of the last remaining Whooping Cranes in the non-migratory Florida flock. Whooping Cranes occurred naturally in the eastern United States until the late 1940s, and there are records of Whooping Cranes in Florida until the 1930s.

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MARCH 14, 2022

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 is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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JUNE 6, 2021

However several of them, including 411 Wildlife Solutions in Florida, have agreed to be listed nationwide. They will take your call, give you free advice, and even talk to the local operator in your area, if need be.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. This is a smartly written book.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%). The DCEs allow researchers to identify respondents’ preferences for specific attributes of birdwatching, and to highlight which attributes respondents value relative to other attributes.”

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APRIL 12, 2013

With some research, I ended up with more questions than answers, making these birds all the more interesting! The populations in the southern United States and northern Mexico are migratory, and it is presumed that the birds that show up annually in south Florida are derived from these populations. where are these birds coming from?

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MAY 16, 2017

Over the weekend, a fellow naturalist friend of mine came to visit the Florida Panhandle from the Big Bend’s Cedar Key. ” She was referring to the Checklist of Florida’s Birds , put out by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. I love hanging out with new birders.

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JULY 13, 2016

In Florida, Snail Kite nests are being threatened by a government-sponsored plan to combat an algae bloom. If your surroundings are carcass-free, you have crows to thank, according to new research about their scavenging services.

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JULY 27, 2016

You won’t find Painted Buntings in Canada—Corey photographed these in Florida, where they are common feeder birds. The researchers don’t recommend getting rid of bird feeders or chopping down trees; rather, they suggest studying the effectiveness of residential window treatments that can deter collisions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

If you’re like me, you’ve been a bit unsettled by the recent anti-environment rhetoric thrown around the American political arena, but Voices for Biodiversity (V4B) is adding more pro-conservation voices to the conversation by funding up and coming researchers and writers from around the world. Click here to give now.

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MAY 11, 2013

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. What do all these birds have in common? They’re (at least partially) pink.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Super Hot-spot: Little Crawl Key, FL – Atlantic Flyway. Fall count to date: 608. Swallow-tailed Kite. Photo by © Michael Todd. Mississippi Kite. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Super Hot-spot: Corpus Christi, TX – Central Flyway.

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JUNE 27, 2017

For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites. From Florida to Maine and back again I toured urban forests, marshes, estuaries, and more, stopping along the way to visit family and friends.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Trained as Wildlife Biologist at the University of Florida, he moved south to the central part of the State and settled in sunny Vero Beach. He now divides his time between South Florida and the tropics where he spends a fair amount of time. He grew up alongside Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails in his native Peru.

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JUNE 25, 2018

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. .” There are even a variety of crafts based on Snowy Owls that you can use to entertain children.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Red Knots have already lost more than 80 percent of their coastal habitat in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. In addition, biologists in the Carolinas and Florida are improving beach habitat by controlling invasive plants. Birds in Delaware Bay. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. That was mostly my fault.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana. Geography is destiny.

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APRIL 19, 2016

It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades. Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks.

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APRIL 17, 2012

June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. April 14, 2012 Liquid oil still seeps from some Louisiana marshes and ongoing research of toxicity levels is being conducted by LSU researchers.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors. Species Accounts.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. There is a well-founded preference amongst ornithologists and researchers to focus on the pressing research needs of declining native species rather than devote valuable research hours to increasing introduced species.

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MAY 30, 2011

Originally found in Europe, the Italian Wall Lizard was shown in a research study to be a species that evolved rapidly when it was genetically isolated, and it would be interesting to see if the American population has developed any morphological differences.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

This migration season in Florida is fast coming to a close but it has not been without its high points. The Florida Keys Hawk-watch broke the world record for number of Peregrine Falcons recorded in a single day – a stunning 651 birds! We have had a record season for these birds and have banded 27 to date this fall.

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JUNE 17, 2015

It encompasses over 70,000 acres spread out between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties, and includes about 43 miles along the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida.” The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. • Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or

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MARCH 31, 2011

Roseate Spoonbill among feathered friends in Florida (E) a belligerent. Even better, US college alums should research the test scores their alma maters currently ask for from prospective students; rampant competition at every tier has turned last generation’s safety schools to this year’s reach schools.

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MARCH 2, 2015

While no one thinks Florida is going to dry up, anywhere from the Dakotas, south to Texas, all the way to the west Coast may be up for some brutal droughts in the coming years. Of course, rainfall and snowfall has everything to do with with the health of lakes, rivers, and freshwater marshes in much of the continent.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

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