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Wind Farm Company Pleads Guilty to Bird Fatalities

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Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. The statement from Duke Energy Corp.

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448 Great Things to do in Nature

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Ken Keffer was born and raised in Wyoming. As editor of Birds & Blooms magazine, she is able to share her love of backyard nature with others. stacy loves gardening (especially growing veggies) and she is a master gardener in Milwaukee where she teaches youth gardening in the community.

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Snowy Owls Can Fly!

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It was Shawn’s first of the year, Wyoming student that he is, so we were in no rush to move on. I’m sure you’ve seen 1,000 images remarkably similar to this in the last couple of weeks. We just stood there watching the bird for awhile in the early morning light.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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The Why of Ferrets

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Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. The way Randy figures it, a desperate or curious ferret discovered a bowl of dog chow, and set to eating kibbles; then Shep discovered the ferret.

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The “Birds” in the Brush

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One species, the Wyoming ground squirrel, spends only about three hours a day above the surface of the earth, and that only on days during the four months of the year when they are not hibernating. Almost the only universal thing that can be said about the ground squirrels is that they live on, and in, the ground.

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eBird Weather: RainCrow Q&A

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A good example is once when I was visiting Wyoming, I found a checklist from a few years earlier that had 750 Horned Larks, 100 Lapland Longspurs, and a Golden Eagle at a nondescript place called “Beef Unit.” As I said, I like including weather observations and appreciate when others do too.

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