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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Go to the site and under Resources you’ll find a wealth of information: species-specific instructions on initial contact with injured/orphaned wildlife, how to mitigate threats to wildlife, how to reunite a baby with its parent. This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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The National Wilderness Preservation System now includes more than 800 congressionally designated wilderness areas totaling more than 110 million acres in 44 states and Puerto Rico.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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Text alerts, if you’re lucky enough to know about them, are great (though most don’t allow for information beyond rare bird sightings). I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family. ” birders tell me. Well, eBird is great.

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eBird Economics: How Much Would You Pay to See Birds?

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The economic “impact” of a birding festival can be estimated by looking at expenditures of attendees ( e.g., hotel rooms, meals, souvenirs, transportation costs, etc.). We learned about the richness of the eBird data regarding a huge number of hotspots and realized that many eBird member profiles included address information.

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. You can download the information on controlling Cliff Swallows in PDF format from the University of California here. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!! Authors: T.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 It’s about packaging, marketing, distribution, transportation, and lobbying. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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If you want to see photos of all 8 of them, there is a nice one-page leaflet online which is also the source of some of the information below. Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages.