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Hydruntine, extinct species of wild ass. Youngest records in Iran date to the 2nd millennium BC. [8] The Syrian elephant roamed southern Iran, before vanishing there in ancient times. [9] The Asiatic lion was recorded only in Iran's Khuzestan and Fars Provinces. The last sighting occurred in 1957 in the Dez River valley. [10]
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Iran.The avifauna of Iran include a total of 573 species, of which two are endemic, and 4 have been introduced by humans.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
Duck hunting using decoys in the Chippewa National Forest, 1938. The waterfowl hunting season is generally in the autumn and winter. Hunting seasons are set by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the United States. [14] In the autumn, the ducks and geese have finished raising their young and are migrating to warmer areas to feed. [15]
The people fish, hunt, and cultivate buffalo. [2] The area where the fresh waters reaches the marshes is far from the cities. The marshes offer a safe home for thousands of migrating animals such as wild squirrels, white eagle, hawks, brown dukes and squirrels who raise their young there. [3]
The Wildlife Area also includes 1,300 acres of reconstructed tallgrass prairie. With both water and upland dry parcels for habitat, the Wildlife Area has logged the sighting of more than 260 species of birds. [4] The Nature Conservancy, which helped sponsor creation of the Wildlife Area in 2005, encourages visitation. [4]
In the 1950s waterfowl management was begun. In 1982 another 1,016 acres (4.11 km 2) were added and in 1992 an additional 767 acres (3.10 km 2). [2] The Fish and Wildlife area consist of the wetlands between the Yellow River and the Kankakee at their junction and uplands on both the north bank of the Kankakee and the south bank of the Yellow.
The greater scaup (Aythya marila), just scaup in Europe or, colloquially, "bluebill" in North America, [3] is a mid-sized diving duck, larger than the closely related lesser scaup and tufted duck. It spends the summer months breeding in Iceland, east across Scandinavia, northern Russia and Siberia, Alaska, and northern Canada.
Deep Fork River runs for 6 miles (9.7 km) through the OWMA, which is mostly upland and hilly rather than flat and swampy, as the refuge is. Adjoining the refuge on the south is the Eufaula Wildlife Management area which preserves another 7 miles (11 km) of the Deep Fork River to its mouth at Eufaula Lake. Land in Eufaula WMA is similar in ...