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

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Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 Despite its relatively inaccessibility, Rainwater Basin WMD had more than 53,000 visits, which generated $2.2 million in activity and 19 jobs. Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8

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

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Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. Visitors are encouraged to wear hunter orange during hunting seasons for safety. New Jersey/New York. Does that sound like a simple solution to the decreased funding coming from the dwindling numbers of hunters and fishers?

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Where to watch shorebirds around Belgrade, Serbia

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A biologist friend of mine recently moved from New Jersey (where she visited the estuaries to study hundreds of thousands waders at close range) to Belgrade where I showed her some inland birding sites with two shorebirds here and one or two more over there. Where to find shorebirds around Belgrade, Serbia?

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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents

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In New Jersey, police shot a Wild Turkey that was causing a few fender benders. These are just quick turkey car accident links I’ve found on my usual birding news feeds, but I’m sure many more are out there. Turkey hunters…not so much. A woman in Ohio had a turkey crash through her windshield.

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Enhance! Enhance!

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Northern Cardinal , Blue Jay , Northern Mockingbird – not drawn to scale but completely ok for New Jersey. The apparent Gambel’s Quail is a spicier choice but maybe hunters did unauthorized stocking of the area. Apparently the ornithology of Camp Crystal Lake is pretty wacky. Weirder things have happened.

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It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!

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The ABA series currently lists guides on New Jersey (Rick Wright), Florida (Bill Pranty), Arizona (Rick Wright), Colorado (Ted Floyd), and California (Alvaro Jamarillo). Another great birding adventure book is The Jewel Hunter by Chris Gooddie (Princeton Univ. He takes it to camp every day.” Press, 2012).

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. million to 2.2 and Canada.”

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