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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. It also currently works with two other bird and mammal hides in Europe.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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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. Much of this economic activity is due to birding.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

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To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. But sometimes we personalize them, and since birds are clearly not all the same, one rehabber’s “sweetiebirds” may be another’s “those sonsabit%*#s.”.

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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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Spotlight: Laurens Wildlife Rescue

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(Do you know how many times a day wildlife rehabilitators say that, especially in the summer? But in the context of 10,000 Birds, I’m not the only rehabber out here with stories to tell. Normally it’s in the context of: “Another Mourning Dove ? Didn’t I just take in eight Mourning Doves last week?

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Since then, the majority of my guests became birders and wildlife photographers. 140 birds).

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Come to the 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival!

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The 19th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival ! And, perhaps my favorite aspect of the festival: giant, pink birds! I hope to see you (and lots of birds!) 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 19th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. …. So, are you coming?

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