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Birding and Butterflying North Carolina Gamelands

10,000 Birds

Wayne Bailey-Caswell Game Land a little past 2 p.m. Certain areas within the Game Land are managed for American Woodcock and Northern Bobwhite , specifically perpetuating the secondary successional habitats they love so much. Suddenly, a golden warbler with black streaks hopped to the top of a leafed out bush right in front of me!

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Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part One: A Burrowing Owl?!?!?!

10,000 Birds

Though we were the first birders on the scene we were not the first people, as a youth baseball game was in full swing and there were cars and people everywhere. The baseball game ended and folks started driving out so we had to be careful not to get run over.

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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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That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting.

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A Snowflake’s Chance

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They shelter and shade, feed and bind. They have only a brief window to find the right spot to send down roots – a spot with the combination of moisture, sunlight, and fine silty soil they need. The are strong, they are important. Despite this, they are in some ways quite fragile.

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

They offered him hand-outs and cared enough about him, not to call Animal Control and risk having him picked up and sent to a shelter where his fate would be doomed. The homeless dog, once called Bones, renamed Blue, who played a “hide and seek game” with Cody, to protect himself and stay alive, ends up at Cody’s side. “I

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death?