10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Birders know that some of the finest birding locations in the country are on federal land , which include national parks , wildlife refuges , forests , monuments , and seashores , among others. The eleven largest national wildlife refuges are also in Alaska, including Arctic NWR and Yukon Delta NWR , each more than 19 million acres.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
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? wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. What are the odds?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2019
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently proposed reintroducing California Condors in the Pacific Northwest. In other words, an experimental population of an “endangered” species is treated as “threatened,” which has fewer protections. But that does not necessarily mean there are no protections.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
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.*
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
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. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
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. You never know what you might see! Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.
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