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Welcome Back Waterfowl at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

Like several of my favorite NWRs, this one was established as a haven for migratory birds, most notably waterfowl, during the bad old days when uncontrolled hunting and habitat loss had put the future of even species we now think of as common in doubt. A second pond held not only more of the same, but some American Coots and Canada Geese.

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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

10,000 Birds

It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. King Eider – Now this was a nice bird, seen on Christmas Eve of last year just before I flew off to California. Short-eared Owl – Finally, a bird that I saw!

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