10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

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. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

Wildlife 244

Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

California Condor 175

California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I talked to an American visitor from Hawaii who had brought his wildlife-mad son along. I must have been very lucky with my timing because I was there when swamp mahoganies were flowering and this brings the nectar hunters in droves. Warriewood is a site I visited last year and hit honeyeater and lorikeet heaven.

Owls 175

Owls Birds Hawaii Neglecting 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding. Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii): 0.0%. And the U.S. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 84.3%.

Ducks 203

Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203