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National Wildlife Refuge Trivia:  What is PILT?  

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National Wildlife Refuges protect critical habitat and provide some of the best birding locations in the United States. PILT payments help local governments carry out such vital services as firefighting and police protection, construction of public schools and roads, and search-and-rescue operations.

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Spotting Red-cockaded Woodpeckers on Eglin Air Force Base

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It was a warm afternoon on the Florida Panhandle, and my husband and I were exploring the recreation areas of Eglin Air Force Base, which is the size of Rhode Island. I had already walked nearly eight miles, feeling tired but content.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Through its campaign, www.ExposeAnimalAbusers.org , the animal protection organization is promoting model legislation that state legislatures could enact.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Dipping a Green-tailed Towhee in Rhode Island Delights of DownEast Maine Good Going at Garret Mountain Refugio Paz de las Aves II: The Antpittas About the Author David David J. Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics What is a babbler?

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? It flies on.

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