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Tips for Making Your Winter Eagle Watching Trips Successful

Oklahoma's bald eagle numbers peak between November and February, making winter the prime season for eagle watching.

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Woodworking for Wildlife: Nest Boxes

Lack of suitable nest sites often prevents wildlife – primarily birds – from utilizing otherwise good habitat. Nest boxes can be added as a habitat supplement.

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Establishing a Successful Wildscape

Attracting wildlife to your yard can be as simple as providing four basic habitat components in your wildscape: food, water, cover, and space.

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Tips for Sharing the Hunting Heritage with Kids

Conservation is funded by sportsmen when they buy hunting and fishing licenses and pay federal excise taxes on sporting goods, so an important part of ensuring a future for conservation includes ensuring a future for sportsmen. Share your heritage!

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“Will You Walk into My Parlour?”

For some people, spiders have an "uncanny ick" about them. We share tips from spider enthusiasts for living – or at least existing – with eight-legged visitors to our homes and spaces.

A green and brown spotted frog.
Attracting Amphibians and Reptiles to Your Wildscape

We share tips for managing amphibians and reptiles in a variety of settings.

A turtle with a brown shell on the side of a gravel road.
Tips for Moving Turtles From Roadways

Oklahoma's roads can be a dangerous place for wildlife, especially deliberate but slow-moving turtles. As you motor across the state this spring, consider lending these fellow travelers a hand with these three tips.

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Nature Sightings: What to Share and How to Share It

We offer tips for what to share when it comes to nature sightings and how to share them with biologists.

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Attracting Hummingbirds

Tips for attracting hummingbirds using artificial feeders and hummingbird gardens.

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Problem Wildlife Guests or Pesky Pests?

On occasion, some animals behave more like pests than welcomed visitors, which means adapting your behavior to theirs – outsmarting or excluding them when they create a nuisance you can’t live with. This guide provides tips for dealing with problem wildlife guests or pesky pests.