10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2013
The photo above, one of mine, shows a Clapper Rail in Louisiana. Maley then goes on to examine the hybrid zone between Clapper and King rails in Louisiana, finding that the hybrid zone is very narrow (about 4 kilometers, or 2.5 So, Maley suggests recognizing four species, instead of the two currently recognized.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
His obituary in The Auk describes him as “without a doubt” responsible for Texas’ laws on bird conservation, “for he was the first in the state to present the real facts concerning the importance of bird life in its relation to human welfare.”
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. Ever since, our staff has been working hard to turn the land back to a more natural state within the floodplain of the Tualatin River basin.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. Oil washes ashore at Venice, Louisiana. May 19, 2010 Oil washes ashore on mainland Louisiana. June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2024
Warblers, thrushes, buntings, and other migrants move across the Gulf of Mexico in an extremely stressful, marathon flight from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before spreading throughout the flyways and heading north.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. ” GL: Aha.
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