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What’s Up with the ABA?

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This strikes me as a puzzling communication strategy for an important issue. T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”.

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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

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This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. Continuing to release more birds into an environment that could not sustain them was a losing strategy.

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

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In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. Issue 4: Access to many National Wildlife Refuges is restricted or extremely limited for waterfowl hunting and wildlife viewing even when lands are acquired by MBCF dollars.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

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Even so, he still knew many species and always yearned to learn about the wildlife he encountered. These “grouse” could be too sneaky for such heavy-handed, accidental strategies. Much more an outdoorsman than a birder, Fred tended to stick to the bigger birds. They also tend to live at low density populations.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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They’re unusual to be sure, but there’s a certain grace in the back and forth monotony of the spoonbill’s feeding strategy and there’s little like seeing a line of spoonbills tearing across a shallow mudflat seeking food you can’t possibly see. Roseate Spoonbill , photo by Julie Gidwitz. I and the Bird ibis'

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The good included the development of a new, more open, conservation strategy that embraced communication and education of the community. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Forest Service.

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