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What are your best tips for how travelers can respect wildlife?

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Whether you're hiking, on a safari or driving through a national park, what are your favorite tips to share with others on how to respect and protect wildlife that you come across? submitted by /u/amoderndaypeasant [link] [comments]

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Birding Information: the Birding Community E-Bulletin

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It is hosted by the National Wildlife Refuge Association , a non-profit that supports programs that protect, promote, and enhance the National Wildlife Refuge System. Each bulletin typically contains several regular columns, including “Rarity Focus,” “Access Matters,” and “Tip of the Month, among others.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway

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Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Hat-tip to Stella. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Wicked, right?

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White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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After several minutes of this deep water foraging behavior, this White-faced Ibis made its way toward me into more shallow water Posed for a little while, and then began to preen I’m glad I took the time to visit Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on this day. Hat-tip to Stella. You never know what you might see! Get yours today!

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