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(Sorry for bad lighting) is this a yellowhammer?

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Hello I have been seeing more of these birds that look like canaries thier snogs are beautiful too when I looked up the sounds on Wikipedia they matched but I don't have experience on birds. BTW this is saudi arabia ) submitted by /u/Revolutionary_Sun682 [link] [comments]

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It feels like spring….

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…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. According to the rather odd and quaint rules for collective terms for birds, groups of Striolated Buntings are called a whole bunch.) I’m sorry.

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Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres at Brigantine

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Until last weekend I can’t recall ever spotting a Ruddy Turnstone actually turning a stone so you can imagine how pleased I was to see several doing just that on a rocky beach at Brigantine on the day after the World Series of Birding. Eventually, with patience and persistence, I succeeded!

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Waxwings and their kin: Meet the bombycillids

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We now have a much better idea of which birds belong in the bombycillid clade, thanks to a paper called Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a bombycillid? First, we turn to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, where dwells a dusky, streaky, sociable bird called the Palmchat ( Dulus dominicus ). Hypocolius.

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

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For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide” by Lars Svensson et al., published in the US by Princeton as “Birds of Europe”. Unlike “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG) with 416 pages and 1.7 And my first impression is: Wow!

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Collaborative List – July 2019

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During July, 11 beats birded 11 countries (USA, UK, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Japan, UAE, Mexico, China and Saudi Arabia) and submitted 82 checklists. The post Collaborative List – July 2019 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. They accounted for 562 species at this sluggish time of year. 15 Jul 2019.

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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

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The annual Christmas Bird Count is a venerable tradition and this year’s will be the 113th. What’s not to like about citizen science, conservation, and transforming a day of slaughter into a day of enjoying being outside watching birds? Or the Great Bird Count. But maybe it needs a name change?