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

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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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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. The photos are from Millennium Park.).

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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As devoted readers of 10,000 Birds know , the writers contribute checklists to a joint eBird account called the “ 10,000 Birds Collaborative.”. Many of the states with more than 200 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US.

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Could Radar Help Make Birdstrikes a Thing of the Past?

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Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). The damage to the bird in question tends toward the catastrophic.) Engineers, airport managers, and wildlife authorities have devised a number of strategies. The damage to the plane, that is. (The

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The Mottled Duck – A Birder’s Duck

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You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is a bland bird, built on shades of brown, and is basically boring. What a bird! This means, of course, that we birders love them! Mottled Ducks.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” For the United States, there is also a state list.