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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2016)

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As you can see from the feature pic, my lousy owl luck precluded me from getting too close to one of these crepuscular hunters. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I’m happier now that I’ve added Short-eared Owl , never an easy sighting for me. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of January 2016)

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The very handsome bird wasn’t hanging out where expected, but I was lucky enough to spy it chilling (literally) on an ice-encrusted pier, unperturbed by the duck hunters that chased everything else away! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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On "The Wild"

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Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" It's not pretty.

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Birding Iceland on the Fly

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Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. Lions quenching their thirst in Etosha National Park by Adam Riley Observing Lions hunting is a thrilling experience.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation. ” Hopefully, my questions will be answered in a future ABA Blog post. In the next essay, J.

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