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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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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MAY 26, 2015

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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DECEMBER 19, 2011

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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Elephants Sanctuary South Dakota Animal Welfare 100

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JULY 30, 2015

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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JULY 28, 2011

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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Mountain Lions South Dakota Cougars Connecticut 79

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

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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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection Animal ALDF 100

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APRIL 18, 2011

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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Birds South Dakota Geese Indiana 96

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JANUARY 1, 2013

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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Birds 2012 South Dakota Costa Rica 85

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

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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Birds South Dakota Zebras Eagles 75

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JANUARY 30, 2009

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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Wolves Obama Endangered Species South Dakota 100

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MAY 11, 2012

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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Ferrets South Dakota Endangered Species Species 97

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

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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South Dakota Geese Birds North America 97

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JUNE 27, 2012

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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AUGUST 15, 2022

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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Birds Species Rhode Island South Dakota 59

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

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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Geese South Dakota North America Sacramento 76

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JANUARY 18, 2012

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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Geese Wildlife Sacramento South Dakota 86

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JANUARY 30, 2013

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

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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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Birds Rhode Island West Virginia Puerto Rico 51

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AUGUST 2, 2013

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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Endangered Species Woodpeckers South Dakota Species 81

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JANUARY 15, 2014

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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Woodpeckers California Endangered Species Birds 90

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APRIL 28, 2014

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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New York Bald Eagle Birds New York City 100

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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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Woodpeckers Birds South Dakota Breeding 98

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AUGUST 9, 2013

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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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Feral Cats Birds 102

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MARCH 8, 2017

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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Ducks Factory North Dakota Geese 63

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

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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Colorado Texas Trinidad Falcons 45

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

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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Sparrows Species Birds Wildlife 89

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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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Birds Geese San Francisco Portland 40

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JULY 21, 2011

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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MARCH 17, 2011

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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