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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. • Explore These Related Posts Greenough – Green Enough.Or

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one. The big white one. It flies on.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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He also blogs for birdingblogs.com 19 Responses to “Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor&# Corey Mar 15th, 2011 at 1:49 pm Nobody tell Daisy, OK? Dawn Fine Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:50 pm NO Comment YourBirdOasis.com Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:07 pm Yeah, polygynandry is really weird…what other species have this breeding system?

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting. I overlooked the date.

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A Question of Migration

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Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) The birds do the flying for you. Why migrate?

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

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Mwahahahahaaaaaaaarrrrhh *cough, cough* *sips at his coffee* Right… I am told candy is a virtue and have thus lured you into this post with a bit of eye candy before unveiling to you my virtuous scheme of turning 10,000 Birds into an all gulls , all the time blog. He first became famous in the bird blog world on Bell Tower Birding.

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