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Watching Wildlife at Kendrick Park in Flagstaff, Arizona
Folks back home will yawn if you brag about a visit to a rest stop, but they don’t know about Kendrick Park Watchable Wildlife Area. This special rest stop between Flagstaff and the Grand…
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Dancing With Sandhill Cranes in a Wildlife Area in Willcox, Arizona
From a levee beside Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area’s flooded ponds, you hear their eerie, unbirdlike creaking and croaking—thousands of sandhill cranes. As you watch, silver-gray birds four feet tall chatter, preen, bathe, and engage…
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Strolling Through Wildlife Habitat in Olympia, Washington
You may be tempted to walk fast, mistaking this for your day’s exercise. Forget it. Instead, stroll slowly and quietly along the paths winding through the marshes and grasslands in this wildlife refuge. The…
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Scanning For Rare Wildlife in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia
While the rich head to Manu National Park, the backpacker crowd gathers in the quaint Bolivian village of Rurrenabaque in search of more budget-minded wildlife adventures. Puttering up the river in a dugout canoe,…
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Birding in Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida
Kayak through marshy estuaries to spot brilliant pink roseate spoonbills, elegant ibis and other shorebirds, all the while inwardly giving props to the Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist, J.N. Darling, who wrested this wildlife sanctuary…
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Discovering the Winter Sands in Chincoteague, Virginia
A biting cold winter wind doesn’t exactly signal idyllic beach weather, but having Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge all to yourself in the off season easily offsets the cold temperatures. Crossing by bridge over the…
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Welcoming the Winter Symphony in Ridgefield, Washington
As winter approaches, the music broadcast from the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge transitions from summer’s chirping chorus of frogs and crickets to winter’s honking, quacking, trumpeting symphony of geese, ducks, swans, cranes, egrets, and…
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Encountering the Jungle's Denizens in Sabah, Borneo
The dugout canoe slides swiftly through the water, then slows down as the guide spots a pair of monkeys grooming each other by the edge of the river. Gliding to a stop, camera clicks…
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Biking the Underground Railroad in Cambridge, Maryland
Biking twenty-five miles around the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge near Cambridge in the sticky, humid Delmarva summers, puts you in the right frame of mind to imagine the struggle Harriet Tubman endured here during…
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Overloading Your Senses at Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon
Sauvie Island floats between the borders of Washington and Oregon with four Cascade Mountains in full view, but its pastoral countryside seems more than a touch French, redolent of slow summer afternoons picking bursting…
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Hoping for Orangutan No-Shows in Sarawak, Borneo
They come out of the verdant rainforest, these “men of the forest”—a.k.a. orangutans—appearing suddenly as if someone had paged them on an inter-jungle intercom. They gather in the treetops, waiting for the wardens to…
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Stalking Jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize
It's 6am, and though the jungle heat is starting to kick up fierce humidity and aggressive mosquitoes, you're sporting serious bug spray, utter determination, and a trail map to a pristine swimming hole for…
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Drowning Out Urban Noise at a Lush Refuge in Broad Channel, NY
For a healthy dose of "Am I really in New York City right now?" hop on a Far Rockaway–bound A train to Broad Channel. When you disembark, take a stroll through this charming Queens…
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Birdwatching in the San Joaquin Valley in Willows, California
With the mysterious Sutter Buttes and snowy Mount Lassen and Shasta in the background, and dozens of species of migrating waterfowl to be seen, it’s worth braving frigid winds and tule fog to visit…
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Trying Your Luck to Spot a Tiger in Sawai Modhpur, India
When you’ve been riding through a wildlife sanctuary for two hours and, just before your safari is about to end, your jeep stops at the possibility of a coveted tiger sighting, you can’t help…
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