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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition by Karl B. McKnight is not totally new, it’s a revision of A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Peterson Field Guides) b y Kent H.

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Birding Southeastern Washington (McNary NWR)

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Few areas in North America support such dense concentrations of waterfowl; more than half the mallards in the Pacific Flyway overwinter at some time in this portion of the Columbia River Basin. Along the way, Marsh Wrens flitted in the cattails, Caspian Terns noisily passed overhead, and an Osprey hunted over the water.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. And the term is ‘non-reversed size dimorphism.’).

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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. The figure is from Jeff Gordon’s introduction in the February 2016 issue of Birding.)

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Profile pages, photography groups, and regional birding groups are filled with Snowy Owl photos this time of year. Sharing photos in groups and our profile pages can attract friends who have never seen Snowy Owls and turn them into birders, or just simply open their eyes to the value of one species’ existence. 1999, Holt et al.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. It is too early to show.

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