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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

10,000 Birds

A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. and West Virginia ranks 44th. For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ).

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

10,000 Birds

Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio). West Virginia ranks 44th, Hawaii ranks 45th, and Rhode Island ranks 48th. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored. out of 51, including Washington, D.C.),