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The European Christmas Bird Count

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A Great Egret , a few Pygmy Cormorants and, by the middle of the Danube, about a hundred Greylag Geese. Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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As the Hooded Cranes know that I am a consultant, they sometimes ask me whether they should forage together with geese or preferably seek areas in which geese are not present. Seek geese in meadows and mudflats, but avoid them in paddy fields ( source ). I am giving them the typical consultant answer: It depends.

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Auto-pilot Conservation in the Era of Trump

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Although the size of some individual projects approved by MBCC each year are dwarfed by major legislation such as the public lands bill , MBCC dutifully approves projects twice a year, each and every year. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters ; Geese at Edwin B. It also approved $15.1 Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Northern Pintails at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

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This blind in particular is usually good for ducks, geese, waders and shorebirds. If you haven’t read about it yet, read my post on the Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp and look forward to progress on this front as we get serious with our legislators after the beginning of the new year.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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When it comes to the legislation ( which may or may not mean anything for dogs and cats ), Cohen sides with the people who recognize that cats and dogs are no different from chickens and geese. "Dog was not easy for me," he writes. The memory has proved hard to digest." He writes, "I’m not happy that I ate dog.

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Foie Gras to Be Banned in California

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It was also a perhaps belated realization by these chefs and their fans that a law signed eight years ago is truly taking effect and is about to change the way they do business drastically, putting California on the front lines of the battle about force-feeding ducks and geese to produce the silky liver delicacy.

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