Endangered Species, Species and Texas

A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

BLM land is particularly important for conservation of the Greater Sage-Grouse and other sageland species. NPS also manages a diverse set of lands ( i.e., from the Arctic to the Everglades to the Mojave Desert to the Rocky Mountains ) that are used by many species of birds. Only FWS has the primary goal of conservation.

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Bird Litigation: Is the Golden-cheeked Warbler Still Endangered?

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. On December 27, 1990 , the U.S.

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The Golden-cheeked Warbler and Conservation Banks

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. One way developers are navigating the warbler’s endangered status is by utilizing conservation banks. What is a conservation bank? # # #. In 1990, the U.S.

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

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. For example, even if nobody visited Aransas NWR in Texas, it would still provide virtually all of the wintering habitat for the endangered Whooping Crane. Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 485,000; $12.1 Santa Ana NWR (Texas): 195,000; $3.4

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat.

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Forgotten Prairies

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

While we continue to decimate our short and tall grass prairies many species reach their inevitable peril. Here in Colorado many species are affected, but perhaps none more than our beautiful Mountain Plovers and Ferruginous Hawks. The Pawnee National Grasslands continues to be a stronghold for our two species in question.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species. Obviously my best bird of the year is going to come during this trip, what with several species of endemic pitta and broadbill possible, not to mention 8 species of hornbill and numerous babblers, storks, kingfishers, trogons and even the endemic Bornean Bristlehead.

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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year. Kodiak NWR is highly inaccessible (“The 1.9

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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AUGUST 9, 2010

BFUSA’s Primate Sanctuary in Texas is home to more than 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession. BFUSA’s mission is to end suffering of wild animals in captivity, conserve threatened and endangered species, and encourage compassionate conservation globally.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

(The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) Please get our endangered species out of your sights, and shoot something else. Seriously, hunters.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. The official Ontario bird checklist, produced by Ontario Field Ornithologists , June 2022 listed 506 bird species**, putting it in the top tier of U.S. state and Canadian provinces. state and Canadian provinces.

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

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The Louisiana black bear’s threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act. Michigan.

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Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Mike had just invited me to Nikon’s Prostaffer Retreat that was to be held at a ranch in south Texas. But nevertheless, this part of the country is home to an astonishing variety of birds and a good number of species that are found nowhere else in the US. “Do they have owls?”

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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. A reasonable birder could respond to this change in a variety of ways, from satisfaction that another bird species has recovered to concern that FWS is caving to rapacious corporations at the expense of an endangered bird. (If

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I also tried to explain the significance of federal administrative rulemaking, including as to the Federal Duck Stamp and the listing of endangered species such as the Black-capped Vireo and Hawaiian Goose. I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I also tried to explain the significance of federal administrative rulemaking, including as to the Federal Duck Stamp and the listing of endangered species such as the Black-capped Vireo and Hawaiian Goose. I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.

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Will Environmental Laws Prevent a Wall Through Santa Ana NWR?

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2017

Birders have been apprehensively watching developments regarding the construction of a border wall through the renowned birding location of Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. Santa Ana NWR, which consists of approximately 2,100 acres along the Rio Grande, is considered one of the crown jewels of the refuge system.

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Birding under Clouds of Uncertainty: Santa Ana NWR

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

When the news broke about a possible border wall through Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, I decided to make plans to visit before it got bisected by a concrete barrier. Getting from Portland, Oregon to McAllen, Texas—one of the towns near Santa Ana NWR—is neither quick nor easy, but I arrived on Sunday, November 5, 2017.

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We Cannot Allow This Administration’s Environmental Policies To Stand

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently learned of the administration’s plans to expand the border wall in Texas within the Santa Anna National Wildlife Refuge ! Home to over 400 species of birds, 450 types of native plants, half of the U.S. Home to over 400 species of birds, 450 types of native plants, half of the U.S. The list goes on and on.

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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

Bird Litigation: Is the Golden-cheeked Warbler Still Endangered?

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The Golden-cheeked Warbler and Conservation Banks

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

The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

Forgotten Prairies

Best Bird of the Year 2013

The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

Will Environmental Laws Prevent a Wall Through Santa Ana NWR?

Birding under Clouds of Uncertainty: Santa Ana NWR

We Cannot Allow This Administration’s Environmental Policies To Stand

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