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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! It made it through the rough winter and is still coming around to the feeders.

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A Question of Migration

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It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) They conclude, provisionally, … that, perhaps apart from a capacity for night-time compass orientation, there is little evidence for deeply rooted coadapted trait complexes that could make up such a migratory syndrome, is suggested.

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