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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. Scott Barnes, N.J. Audubon Naturalist, and Linda Mack, N.J.

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The Glory Days Of Fall

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Photographed at White Lake, North Dakota. On the Farrallon Islands, San Francisco County’s own megararity trap, volunteer researches hope for everything from Red-footed Booby to Golden-cheeked Warbler. I write to you this September from San Francisco, California. Californian birders live for fall.

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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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The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota. The 900 acre Maquam bog is designated as a Research Natural Area and the refuge was designated as an Important Bird Area in partnership with the Audubon Society. Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge : Open to sport fishing.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Three papers coming out of the study are in peer review, and the research continues, with citizen science opportunities and additional data partnerships anticipated in the near future.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: A Review by an Aspiring Seawatcher

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Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus, photographed above by Ken Behrens, flies nonstop from staging areas in North Dakota to Chesapeake Bay and eastern North Carolina, a fact indicated by both arrows and text. This makes researching a species much more time consuming than it should be. Some maps are quite busy.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. Interestingly, in her work, the researcher found that the birds live in small groups dominated by a single male. North Dakota. South Dakota. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Examples: California.