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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Texas restricts deer importing.) Tags: wildlife trafficking Arkansas Texas deer. They were illegally bringing in deer from Arkansas. Plus a little matter with stolen property.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. I saw this first-hand during an afternoon studio walk.

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APRIL 8, 2011

Now you should have a sense of the excitement elicited by the Great Texas Birding Classic ! The Great Texas Birding Classic covers the extent of what else but the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, 500 miles of phenomenal habitat covering the Gulf Coast from the east Texas Piney Woods to the lower Rio Grande Valley.

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MARCH 15, 2016

He has visited more than 40 National Wildlife Refuges in 20 states and frequently visits NWRs in his travels, most recently Buenos Aires NWR in southern Arizona. The focus on Malheur is and was appropriate, but we should not lose sight of the significance of the entire National Wildlife Refuge System. The combination is potent.

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MAY 17, 2023

Just a few shots of the native wildlife. submitted by /u/20RollinMofus [link] [comments]

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Linda runs a wildlife rehabilitation center in Austin County, Texas, and one night she wrote to our listserv that a woman had called her that afternoon and told her that Mockingbirds had gotten into her house, taken over her brain, and were telling her what to do.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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APRIL 3, 2018

At the top of those destinations is the stretch of Gulf Coast Texas barrier islands starting at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in the north, through Padre Island National Seashore, to South Padre Island near the country’s border. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. As a wildlife rehabilitator, I’ve used many of their gathered facts to improve my bird care.

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AUGUST 18, 2018

Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. The current administration can now start construction on any of the public lands along the border with no concern for habitats, ecosystems, or wildlife. Destroy the habitats – destroy the wildlife. Photo courtesy of © Matt Clark/Defenders of Wildlife). ~.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. Competition with invasive fire ants for insect food is a major source of mortality for young Attwater’s Prairie Chickens.

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MAY 9, 2022

Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). The latest volume on the subject is Montgomery’s The Hawk’s Way: Encounters With Fierce Beauty.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

(Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.)

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

The voice, which we soon learns belongs to wildlife photographer Richard Moore, exclaims, “Migration is on!” ” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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JANUARY 4, 2020

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Texas A&M Soltis Center. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Embalse San Miguel, Turrúcares (acceso restringido).

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Not far behind is California (348, up from 297), followed by Arizona (294, up from 155), Florida (233, up from 227), New Jersey (223, up from 199), Oregon (221, up from 209), and Texas (218, up from 106). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species. The state with the largest increase was Arizona , with 139 species added.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Both Vu and the company were ordered to pay $40,000 to the Texas Park and Wildlife Foundation and a $5,000 fine and put on eighteen months probation after being found guilty in federal court. ” Birds are protected and can’t be shot at will, even in Texas. How bad was Vu and company?

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MAY 14, 2019

The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered.” What is a conservation bank? # # #. In 1990, the U.S. How does it work?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We are here to film the local HummerBird Celebration for the towns of Rockport and Fulton, Texas. The towns of Rockport and Fulton are great examples of how one bird can inspire entire towns to celebrate their local wildlife. But we’re not alone. I’m overlooking Aransas Bay from Fulton Harbor as I write this.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

On my previous trips to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I had only once spotted an armadillo, and that was on the side of the highway as I whizzed past, which is hardly the view you want when you are seeing something for the first time. At least this one chose Black Point Wildlife Drive to be the road it hung out along.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

I had the great pleasure to see both color forms, more commonly called color morphs, when I was birding Merrit t Island National Wildlife Refuge during the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. … a.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

John O’Groats Ferry Boat Wildlife Tours – Scotland. Jonnie at the Spurn National Wildlife Refuge, England – accommodations.spurnbirdsobs@hotmail.com. Tom and Connie Unsicker at Estero Llano State Park in Texas. John Yochum at Estero Llano State Park in Texas. John Brush in Alamo Texas.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

Three months of non-stop morning sickness left me drained, and I cancelled planned trips to Texas and New York, where I would have added a plethora of birds to my year list. Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage. I did not fall into that category. And the third trimester?

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. A checklist from Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C. was good for 11 lifers. Our honeymoon in the U.S Virgin Islands ( St.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” Fish and Wildlife Service. Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Because ingestion of spent lead shot has been documented to cause acute health problems in wildlife (most notably death), use of lead shot has been increasingly restricted over the past few decades. On federal wildlife refuges and many states’ wildlife management areas, non-toxic shot is required when hunting all game birds.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%). Report to the National Flyway Council from the Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and University of Minnesota. Citation: Patton, Stephanie. Paul, MN 55108.

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MARCH 1, 2019

A few days before my backyard birding afternoon, my husband and I had visited the Louisiana and Texas coasts, seeking birds in the incredible wildlife refuges that shelter wintering waterfowl and so much more. On that trip, we actively sought new species, moving from one place to another with drive and determination.

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MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. FWS calls WPAs the “Prairie Jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.”. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

But this winter I played it safe and booked a weekend away to a place that should not have a freak ice storm: the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas where I can grab great looks at birds like Crested Caracaras. so for me, you really can’t beat the birds for your buck in South Texas. But how about you?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I was at the Blue Heron Wetlands in Titusville, Florida, during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival hoping to connect with a Purple Gallinule that the field trip I co-led with Laura Erickson failed to find. But, having never birded Texas, I do not have a Muscovy Duck on my ABA list.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

San Antonio Zoo (Texas) Edmonton Valley Zoo (Canada), Buttonwood Park Zoo (Mass.), Honolulu Zoo (Hawaii), Wildlife Safari (Ore.), This list was issued by In Defense of Animals last month. Here they are. Central Florida Zoo (Fla.), Niabi Zoo (Ill.), Topeka Zoo (Kan.), York's Wild Kingdom Zoo (Maine) tied with Southwick's Zoo (Mass.),

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Northern Gulf Coast of Texas , with stops at Anahuac NWR, Brazoria NWR, and Aransas NWR. Rio Grande Valley of Texas , including stops at Santa Ana NWR and Laguna Atascosa NWR. Thus, my “good birds” are likely the opposite of an eastern birder.

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APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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