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This list of birds of Mississippi contains species credibly documented in the U.S. state of Mississippi, as accepted by the Mississippi Ornithological Society Bird Records Committee (MBRC). As of March 2018, there were 426 species on the official list. [ 1 ]
There are 54 areas with over a thousand square miles of land under management of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and operated as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) [1] in six regions: [2] Delta Region contains 14 WMAs; East Central Region contains 7 WMAs; North East Region contains 6 WMAs; North West Region contains 6 ...
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP), formerly known as the Mississippi Game & Fish Commission, is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of Mississippi responsible for programs protecting Mississippi fish and wildlife resources and their habitats, as well as administering all state parks; it has its headquarters in Jackson.
The Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge is a 12,941 acre (52.4 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Washington County, Mississippi.Named after the Yazoo tribe, it was established to provide waterfowl and other migratory birds in the Mississippi Flyway with nesting, feeding, brooding, and resting habitat.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.
The refuge is an oasis of wildlife habitat surrounded by agriculture. Bounded on the east side by the unique loess bluffs of eastern Mississippi, this 15,572-acre (63.02 km 2) refuge was named to reflect its location at the base of the bluffs.
According to conservation non-profit Wildlife Mississippi, some of the trees there are thought to be in excess of 1,000 years old. That dates them back to a time when Native Americans were ...
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