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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections. He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. and Canada.”

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding. Nisqually NWR (Washington): 56.3%. And the U.S. Aransas NWR (Texas): 42.7%.

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