10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

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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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

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. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast?

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Bald Eagle 117

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

.” 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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Chickens Texas Louisiana Wildlife 120

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. Document WEC257 of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida / IFAS, [link]. ** Pruett-Jones, Stephen, et al. and Sam Logue. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus). Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Immature Magnificent Frigatebird ( Fregata magnificens ), Grand Isle, Louisiana © David J. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

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. So, I was excited to read reports in late 2017 of a pair of Whooping Cranes being seen on a cattle farm. An eBird mystery. Did this happen?

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 148

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 1989, the MBCC was further tasked with approving projects under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), which provides federal funds for partnerships to protect and manage wetlands and other habitats for migratory birds and to implement the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

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Ducks New Hampshire Kentucky South Carolina 180