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Wilson’s Plovers in Folly Beach, Charleston

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Located at the end of a long public beach, the park features the beach but also a protected marsh – some areas of which are used by Least Terns and Wilson’s Plovers as nesting sites. They are listed as threatened in South Carolina, with approximately 375 pairs of nesting plovers. A Willet foraging for food.

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Sarah Palin Secretary of Energy or the Interior?

10,000 Birds

Now South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is floating Ted Cruz to fill the SCOTUS vacancy. She is obviously part of the “alt right” movement to give OUR federal public lands back to the states. Putting her in charge of protecting our wildlife on public lands would be catastrophic. ” Really?

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “I’d God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”

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