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

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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. Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 485,000; $12.1 Santa Ana NWR (Texas): 195,000; $3.4

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. If he were a Minnesota dentist, or a Texas veterinarian, or a beauty contestant posing with this trophy, would his argument for justifying this death be any different? Researcher” is a term that should differ greatly from the term “trophy hunter.”

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Texas May Allow Aerial Hunting of Wild Pigs

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Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. For years, ranchers in the Lone Star State have hired professional hunters in choppers to thin the hogs' fast-multiplying ranks. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.”

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Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

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Clark’s Grebe ( Aechmophorus clarkii ), Balmorhea Lake, Texas © David J. As other scientists have examined the Mirandornithes hypothesis, however, they have found many important similarities between flamingos and grebes, beyond the consistent and mounting genetic evidence. And that is wonderful indeed.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world.