10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource. Quivira NWR (Kansas).

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Wildlife Las Vegas Texas Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

I was happy to read that the wood stork ( Mycteria Americana ), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of endangered to threatened species. Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). However, birds in the U.S. Photo: U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2014

I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. I had the pleasure to attend the Carolina Bird Club’s spring meeting in Hendersonville, North Carolina. One of our target species was Swainson’s Warbler. They seemed ok with this.

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North Carolina Groups Experience Experiments 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

“Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

The Outer Banks are known for their spectacular sand beaches, and in the protected areas these sand expanses are wide and largely free of visitors during the early summer. They formed their little clumps along the water, all the species mixed together until a walker approached too closely. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Next stop: the dunes.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

After all, if the much smaller North Carolina Audubon could weather the off road vehicle (ORV) extremists who flooded the North Carolina Audubon Facebook page in the wake of the new ORV policy for Cape Hatteras then the national could certainly handle a week or so of crazy cat people. Pretty standard.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271