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Dawn in South Carolina

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Near the turn of the 20th century, wealthy influencer Bernard Baruch bought coastal property in South Carolina. Originally from New Jersey, she has lived in South Carolina for over a decade, and was a great help identifying the shorebirds we found. Allen is an awesome person to bird with. hours of walking.

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Waderfest!

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Call it climate change, call it habitat restoration (in truth, it’s probably a little of both), but as far north as South Carolina you can find much of the same diversity in impressive concentrations, without the proximity to saccharine, nausea-inducing theme parks (though I’m told that proximity is actually a selling point for some.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species?

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The Vulturine Storks

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European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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The species is said to have never been common, a description I’ve always thought is applied too liberally to long-gone species almost as a convenient declaration of helplessness or shrug of the shoulders toss off in the face of its eventual demise. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. John Bachman.