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Where to Find Me at the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival

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The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! John’s National Wildlife Refuge” trip. I can’t wait to be in Florida!

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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Geographic patterns of species richness for birds (1,558 species) in East Africa at 0.25° resolution (blue indicates low species richness, while brown indicates high species richness). SERVIR Africa Workshop. Kenya 1 Lake Nakuru National Park with 506 so far eBirded species Uganda 1 Queen Elizabeth II NP 585 sp.

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A Birder Attends a (Virtual) Ornithology Conference – Part II

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The workshops , and mentoring and networking events are not particularly relevant, and I skipped them. He modeled likely future suitable habitats in a climate change scenario for a number of bird species of conservation concern. Thus, birds may be moving from protected areas to unprotected areas, creating a conservation mismatch.

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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

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I was returning from Rockport, Maine, having retrieved my daughter Skye and her friend Bau-Hien from a photography workshop. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”

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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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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. The proposal from U.S.

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How To Choose A Digiscoping Camera

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I give a lot of workshops all over the country. It’s perfect for someone who is a wildlife watcher first and a photographer second. When I give workshops, I almost always have someone come up to me and tell me how much they have spent on a spotting scope and camera and that every photo they take is utter crap.

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