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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! ” Steller’s Sea-Eagle, Boothbay Harbor, January 24, 2022 Copyright © 2022 Donna L. It has wings. It can fly.”

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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This third obstacle seemed impossible to overcome until I discovered that the Port Townsend Marine Science Center hosts Puffin Cruises aboard the 65′ Glacier Spirit, owned and operated by Puget Sound Express. Once the salmon started heading upstream the eagles would disperse and go after them. But how to get there?

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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I wasn’t there to birdwatch, however, I was volunteering with Wildlife ACT, a conservation organisation that provides science monitoring to the parks of Zululand in South Africa (and increasingly, beyond). But the wildlife and scenery was epic. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest. Terrestrial Brownbul.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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For example, I’ve seen Bald Eagles in 15 states. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. Of course, you can use the data in many ways. GPS-tracked miles.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S., Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.”

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