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Duck Stamp Conservation 2023

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Duck Stamp funds also allow FWS to expand the National Wildlife Refuge System. Conte NWR (New Hampshire): $1,066,450 to acquire 797 acres. Conte NWR (New Hampshire): $1,066,450 to acquire 797 acres. Willapa NWR (Washington): $1,255,248 to acquire 239 acres.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida). out of 51, including Washington, D.C.) For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 37th in the U.S.

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Beats the Beltway: a review of Bruce Beehler’s book “Natural Encounters”

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The travels in his most recent book Natural Encounters: Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons are more limited — to the eastern part of the United States, mostly Washington, D.C. and environs, where he lives and works, and where access to nature is, he shows, surprisingly easy. In addition to his D.C.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199). After those five, there are relative handful with over 100 species: North Carolina (172), Michigan (159), Arizona (155), Washington (144), North Dakota (141!), Virginia (122), New Mexico (112); Texas (106); Colorado (106), and Pennsylvania (102).

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A Brief Interview with Greg Miller

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Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds. Washington in New Hampshire in July. When and where did you see yours during your big year? The Catskills are beautiful, but I found my Bicknell’s Thrush on Mt.