article thumbnail

APHIS receives funding to address multi-state rabies outbreaks

AVMA News

Wildlife rabies outbreaks in Alabama, Maine, and Vermont have prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to approve nearly $19 million in emergency funding. The money will be used to manage rabies in six emerging areas that have an elevated risk for rabies spread.

Vermont 328
article thumbnail

Snow Geese at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area

10,000 Birds

Vermont’s Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area was the first place I saw huge numbers of Snow Geese so I was pleased to stumble across this post on VTDigger and see that the birds are still showing up there. If you live in northern New York or Vermont it is well worth a visit!

Geese 154
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

It’s On: The Rusty Blackbird Migration Blitz!

10,000 Birds

Fish & Wildlife Service, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and others). If you find any Rusty Blackbirds when you are out in the field this spring, you can enter it into eBird through the “Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz” observation type. eBird will share the data with IRBWG and its partners (the U.S.

article thumbnail

10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

10,000 Birds

For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). Naturally, the “missing” states implicitly suggest birding trips, as every “empty” state provides excellent birding opportunities.

article thumbnail

Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet

10,000 Birds

This week’s beer is the second we’ve seen from the Hermit Thrush Brewery of Brattleboro, Vermont, a state with its own share of boreal habitat for nesting Hermit Thrushes. But their delicate and ghostly voice is a constant presence deep in the balsam and spruce-scented northern forests all summer long.

Detroit 137
article thumbnail

10,000 Birds goes eBirding

10,000 Birds

For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes locations in Utah ( Bear River MBR ), Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ), and Wisconsin ( Horicon NWR ). 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).

article thumbnail

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

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.

Fish 143