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PETA Sues the University of South Dakota

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South Dakota Governor Wants Livestock Research Facility

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Mike Rounds wants a biotech animal research facility built in South Dakota. This looks like its for farming of livestock, not medical research, but that's bad too. Research on animals is research on animals. From the High Plains Journal. The Argus Leader reports that Rounds announced Sept.

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What is the State Bird of South Dakota?

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South Dakota went a different way, designating the Ring-necked Pheasant as the state bird in 1943. In fact, the bird is so popular that it was also chosen for South Dakota’s bicentennial commemorative quarter! Ring-necked Pheasants are native to Asia, brought over in the 1880’s.

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Reptile Gardens, South Dakota

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Humane Society Ranks States on Animal Welfare

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drum roll please) South Dakota!!! Here's a way to find out how your state ranks. California is #1 again.yay! Washington State, where I currently live, is #6! At the bottom.(drum

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Best & Worst States for Animal Protection

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New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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Had a recent trip to South Dakota, here’s some of the cuties I captured through my car window at Bear Country USA

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Humane Society Ranks States in First-Time Report

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Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakota, Idaho and South Dakota are at the bottom. It's their first annual "humane state" report. California and New Jersey came out on top.

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Bob Barker Offers to Pay to Move Canadian Elephants to Sanctuary

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I grew up in South Dakota and I know a little bit about cold, and it's just not the place for an elephant.". "I don't think there should be elephants in Canada," said Barker, 88, during a live interview with CBC’s Carole MacNeil. "I

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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I began a program for PBS on a group of young kids in a small town in South Dakota. On Mother’s Day, an F2 Tornado hit the small town of Delmont, South Dakota. But the kids in South Dakota are going to be ok now. 84 homes were destroyed so it was minimal in many ways and I am thankful for that.

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When Will One Show Up In Queens?

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Its journey originated in South Dakota, 1,500 miles to the west! The Mountain Lion struck and killed by a car in Connecticut in June has been confirmed as a wild animal. The last confirmed sighting of a cougar in Connecticut was in the late 1800s.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Ranks States on Animal Protection

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And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site.

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The Popular Barn Swallow

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This summer the opportunity presented itself in the form of a family trip to South Dakota and neighboring states. Adult and fledglings in Murdo, South Dakota. But, seeing a actual barn swallow nest would imply either going to central Argentina or travel to northern latitudes during the breeding season.

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Sentencing for Bird Killers

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In a completely unrelated case, a South Dakota man, Randy Albers, pled guilty to charges related to poisoning Canada Geese on his farm and was sentenced to a year of probation. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds. He must also pay a $5,000 fine and $1,650 in restitution.

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If Birds Were Beers

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Photos, in order, by Suzie Gilbert; South Dakota DGFP; Jason Quinn; Graeme S. As for the Super Bowl, it was the first one I’d ever watched start to finish … and to my great dismay, there was no Clydesdale commercial. Beer, here! Chapman; Shaun Kardinal.

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Obama's Rules Freeze May Help Wolves

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Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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The Why of Ferrets

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The first resurrection, or more properly resurfacing, of the black-footed ferret happened in 1964, in Mellette County, South Dakota. When the South Dakota ferret numbers began dropping, they captured nine animals in hopes of starting a captive breeding population.

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The Unique Black-necked Stilt

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I found these beauties at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, one of the many locations the Black-necked Stilt breeds in the California Central Valley (map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds ). Black-necked Stilts will wade in water of any depth up to the height of their breast.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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North Dakota. South Dakota. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. Rhode Island. Washington. Wisconsin. I particularly like this photo of a female at Nanhui.

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Tundra Swans In The California Central Valley

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Range map courtesy of Terri Sohl of South Dakota Birds and Birding.

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Big Year Birding Update

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Lynn Barber is chasing the South Dakota big year record and has reached 314 species, which leaves her 18 short of the record of 332. At 56 mammals and 381 birds it seems that they will easily reach the original goal but the more ambitious idea of reaching 500 might be tough. You can keep up with her exploits on the ABA Blog.

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Ross’s Goose, the Little Snow Goose

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Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding. The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).

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Greater White-fronted Geese at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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In North America, the Greater White-fronted Goose breeds in open tundra areas of the low Arctic from Point Barrow, Alaska to northeastern Keewatin, Northwest Territories, and it winters south to Chiapas, Mexico, thus having the broadest latitudinal range of any arctic-nesting goose 1. Range map courtesy of South Dakota Birds and Birding.

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Fire and Rain

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There is currently a push to place the Black-backed Woodpecker, in its Oregon/California and South Dakota populations, under the protection of the Federal Endangered Species Act. They receive no protection, and are often destroyed by salvage logging as quickly as possible.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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Range map courtesy of South Dakota Birds and Birding. Some of these irruptions have been attributed to a lack of wood-boring insect prey on their normal range or to overpopulation following an insect outbreak 1. Either way, they are usually due to exploitation of wood-boring beetle larvae, their primary food.

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Willow Ptarmigan in Jefferson County, New York!

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Well, below is the range map for Willow Ptarmigan , borrowed from South Dakota Birds and Birding. Why was everyone so excited to see a Willow Ptarmigan ? Note how far New York State is from even the bird’s winter range. This football-sized bird was way out its normal range.

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Lewis’s Woodpeckers Are Back

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The truth is that Lewis’s Woodpeckers , named after the famous explorer Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame a few years after being discovered in 1805, are found in the United States mainly west of the great plains (range map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds ).

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

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The resulting properties—WPAs—are small ponds, wetlands, and associated grasslands, primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, but also in Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa. In 1958, to address the increasing loss of this valuable habitat, FWS began to acquire land in the region.

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Little Big Year – Week 34: We visit Colorado and Texas

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With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir.

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After Some Merritt Island Specialties

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This species has three populations that reside in the northern tall-grass prairies ranging from South Dakota up though the Canadian prairies. Certain stops along the wildlife drive with adjacent salt marsh habitat is where we searched these guys out. They other two are located in coastal New England and up on the James and Hudson Bays.

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The Traveling Birder

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Prairie Pothole Region of the United States , primary in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. Of course, there are also many potential lifers that are essentially impossible to see in outside of Alaska, at least in the United States. And when else would I ever get to see Nome?

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison. In your back yard, if you have a feeder and exclude insects, birds may represent 100% of the animal biomass until either you our your cat walks outside.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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All conditions are perfect here in central South Dakota for the waterfowl travelers. Have a nice weekend. Salls Country Life Mar 19th, 2011 at 1:35 pm We are experiencing some incredible migratory bird watching right now. Stop by our blog for some nice shots and share the experience!!

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Wrap-Up of 2012 Big Year Birding

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Lynn Barber was chasing the South Dakota big year record of 332 and managed to smash it with 350 species. It looks like 352 species is the new South Dakota Big Year record but it is unclear to me if more than one person reached that number or even exceeded it. Pat, let us know in the comments, alright?

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