10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania). As the only federal lands with a legal mandate to protect wildlife, birders should be at forefront of protecting the National Wildlife Refuge System.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2021
All of those birds also fly to and from the woods of Pennsylvania to parts of the Amazon rainforest and back. From the Amazon to Ohio, protecting birds also means protecting habitat through supporting and promoting sustainable use from home to the foothills of Colombia. Literally in the millions. For birds, there are no borders.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
You can also report it to your state Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Environmental Protection, or Fish and Game. Beth McMaster, a wildlife rehabilitator with Wildbird Recovery in Western Pennsylvania, says the first time a crew arrived she threatened to chain herself to one of her trees. 5) Display attitude.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
The infamous Labor Day Pigeon Shoot was held in Hegins, Pennsylvania from 1921 until it was closed down in 1998. Eventually the operators of the shoot were sued, the case climbed through the courts, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously against it, calling it “cruel and moronic.”
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Maryjane in Pennsylvania. “Me
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2021
“Gamebirds” to some, cool, cryptic understory birds to the birding people, grouse crouch protected as unfettered winds sway the top of the tall prairie grass. At 8, everything was far away, distant, and foreign, even Pennsylvania. Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2011
The fine folks at the Fish and Wildlife Service are happy to tell the tale: The history of Tinicum Marsh, the largest remaining freshwater tidal wetland Pennsylvania goes back to the first settlements in the region in 1634. The remnant of this once vast tidal marsh is protected by the refuge. But how did such a refuge come to be?
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