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Want to know if wetlands, so important to the environment, are healthy? Look to the birds.
Wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, vital for hundreds of bird species, have been drastically reduced. The Duck Stamp, established in 1934, has funded the restoration and protection of ...
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Want to know if wetlands, so important to the environment, are healthy? Look to the birds.
When wetlands are destroyed, the birds are usually the first to noticeably die off. By the early 1900s, it was clear that draining the swamps, bayous and backwaters of the Mississippi River to ...
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For sport or food, love of birds is saving grace for America’s wetlands
When wetlands are destroyed, the birds are usually the first to noticeably die off. By the early 1900s, it was clear that draining the swamps, bayous and backwaters of the Mississippi River to create ...
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Vital to wildlife, water quality and flood defense, wetlands are losing ground. Literally.
The Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the U.S." This change could remove safeguards from more than half of U.S ...
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The Plovers Have Landed. At Least 2 of the Endangered Birds Are Confirmed at Montrose Beach
One has been identified by his leg bands as Pippin, a bachelor male who hung out at Montrose in summer 2024. The second bird was ID'd as “Uncle Larry,” a 2023 Michigan hatchling who spent 2024 at a ...
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Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB
* Bird News Pro and Bird News Ultimate subscribers receive full sighting details. The reserve is reached from Burton by taking Puddington Lane (nearly opposite the church) and turning right along a ...