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Avian Quiz – April 29, 2011

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While researching this quiz on the internet, I have seen many numbers claiming to be the correct number. Don’t they do their research? Or that the internet will allow anyone to post anything no matter whether it is correct or not. These numbers include 234, 204, 172, 225, 212, and 221.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up there at all–I was working on a chaotic project at work, the economy was in crisis (well, the economy is always in crisis, but this was the summer of 2011, as in Black Monday crisis), and the tour itself was not confirmed till two months before the start date.

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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Exclusive to licensed wildlife rehabilitators: if you are not listed with AHNow and wish to be, or if you are listed and need to change/update any of your information, email Research Director and Wildlife Rehabilitator Liaison Elena Rizzo. Animal Help Now, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in Colorado in 2011.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Baby Boom … in Great Britain?

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As a backup plan, researchers captured some Spoonies in Siberia in 2011 and brought them to England , where they’ve been raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility.

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Avian Quiz Answer – Oct 7, 2011

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For me, writing good quizzes has meant working long hard hours, researching, emailing, reading field guides, conferring with master birders around the world. Thank you all for your good wishes on this last quiz. And great appreciation for all the guesses and answers, right and wrong, throughout these years.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., A writing professor at Bard College, Rogers has edited and written a number of book about women’s experiences in the outdoors even before she became a birder, including her memoir My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (2011).

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