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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

10,000 Birds

Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species. Because many NWRs were established to protect migrating birds, they lie along one of the four primary flyways.

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And it’s a wrap….

10,000 Birds

I must have keep 400 images in the file of just this one species. There is a small Federal Reserve, set aside on the white sandy beach near San Jose Del Cabo, in order to protect the nesting Least Terns. We have a small resident population of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks.