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The Whistling Ducks of Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

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On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. The waterfowl flock was made up of two very unique looking species: the Fulvous and Black-belled Whistling Ducks. Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast?

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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What’s in a Name: Attwater’s Prairie Chicken

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.” His publications included 1903’s Boll Weevils and Birds and 1914’s Use and Value of Wild Birds to Texas Farmers and Stockmen and Fruit and Truck Growers , pragmatic titles that emphasized the usefulness of wildlife. Undeveloped land absorbs water, filters salt, and slows wind.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) Five species of frigatebird ply the planet’s tropical skies and seas. Immature Magnificent Frigatebird ( Fregata magnificens ), Grand Isle, Louisiana © David J. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed. Whooping Crane is not listed as a “sensitive species” for Florida, and there are reports for other locations in the area.

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