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

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In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. During both the northbound (spring) and southbound (fall) migrations, knots can be found anywhere along the coastal and inland U.S.

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Returning to Old Haunts

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One particular resting place brought me to familiar birding territory: Pleasure House Point, Virginia Beach. When I was first learning to bird in the summer of 2013, I spent a summer living with my fiance in Virginia Beach. During my three days in Virginia Beach, I knew I had to walk that path again. A view of low-tide.

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource. Chinteague NWR (Virginia). As the only federal lands with a legal mandate to protect wildlife, birders should be at forefront of protecting the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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Millions of Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Kingbirds, Chimney Swifts in Costa Rica- All Heading North

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When birding in parks and woodlots of Ohio, Virginia, and Toronto, places with groves of maples and old craggy oaks, it can be hard to imagine that the Red-eyed Vireos of constant song were foraging for caterpillar larvae in rainforest just a few months earlier. Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south.

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Birding in Costa Rica, August, 2022- News and Recommendations

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while simultaneously working to educate locals about the importance of protecting this top bird of prey. The Costa Rica Bird List grows… With more than 900 species of birds identified from a country the size of West Virginia, it might be an understatement to say that Costa Rica has a lot of bird species.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918.

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Research and Birding at Elkhorn Slough

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I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). The trail wove downhill, around farm buildings demonstrative of the agricultural history of the site before it became protected. “What’s that?”

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