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Black-throated Gray Warbler at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

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There are only two previous records, one from the Christmas Bird Count in 1991 and one from November of 2005, when I didn’t live in Queens and had just gotten into birding. Interestingly, I had made a brief attempt at the 2005 bird but my time was severely limited by Daisy’s family obligations and I dipped.

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Aging a thrush.

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A completely leucistic thrush had been recorded in the park in July 2005 and the observation had been written up in a far more formal style than you are likely to see from this blogger. noted that the bird from 2005 was to be found in a small area with a few conspecifics. There was one entry that particularly caught my attention.

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Australian White Ibis Survey 2013

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This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney last year. Duncan saw Australian White Ibis ”001″ on his trip , so keep an eye out!

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Australian White Ibis Survey

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This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year. Australian White Ibis “040″

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In 2005, a psychologist and an economist taught a group of monkeys the concept of money. Soon, the monkeys engaged in prostitution.

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submitted by /u/lemondeisyours [link] [comments].

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Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide

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Schmitt is a lecturer on Ponant Antarctic cruises who lived in Chile from 2005 to 2015, and helped develop the eBird online birding tool for Chile and the rest of South America. Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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Birding Gir National Park, India

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Underneath an arched branch, one familiar bird, a Common Blackbird female… but after a recent split in 2005 by Rasmussen and Anderton, it was elevated to a full species – Indian Blackbird ( Turdus simillimus ). It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ).

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