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Sacramento National
Wildlife Refuge
The
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex is located approximately 90
miles north of the city of Sacramento. The Complex consists of six national
wildlife refuges that comprises over 35,000 acres of wetlands and uplands in
the Sacramento Valley of California. The Refuges serve as a resting and
feeding area for nearly half the migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway. |
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George C.
Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Location of June's Photo of the Month, near the
City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is the winter home
of the Lesser Snow Goose and is one of Canada's top bird-watching sites,
with over 60,000 annual visitors. |
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Damon Point,
Ocean Shores, WA
Location of July and August's Photo of the Month.
Damon Point, a 61-acre day-use park, is the southeastern tip of the Ocean
Shores Peninsula. The park consists of a one-mile-long, half-mile-wide
stretch of land jutting out into the sea. Damon Point is a textbook example
of accreted land, and is one of the few remaining nesting sites of the snowy
plover. |
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North Jetty, Ocean Shores, WA
The North Jetty was
constructed in the period 1907-1913. Its functions are to block southward
transport of sediment and to protect and maintain an entrance navigation
channel. You can read more about the area here. |
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Falcon Research Group
Falcon Research Group is a non-profit organization
dedicated to research and education of birds of prey. |
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National Audubon Society
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore
natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats
for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. |
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East Lake Washington Audubon
Society
The
local Audubon Society chapter of which Tim is a board member. |
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Nature Photographer Magazine
Tim
has had a photo on this online version of the magazine. Tim's photo of
a Western Grebe was featured on the
Free to Read section. If you click on the Field Contributor's
Site section, you will find a link to their list of Field Contributor's. |
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Bosque del Apache is Spanish
Bosque del Apache is Spanish for "woods of the
Apache," and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches
routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to
mean one of the most spectacular national wildlife refuges in North America.
Here, tens of thousands of birds--including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese,
and many kinds of ducks--gather each autumn and stay through the winter.
In the summer Bosque del Apache lives its quiet, green life as an oasis in
the arid lands that surround it. |
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