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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

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Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. of researchers looking for chemical contaminants in the environment.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.”

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Riekena Compliance Manager Bell Laboratories, Inc./Motomco

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. According to Chinese researchers, nest predation and brood parasitism are the two main reasons. Why do nesting attempts of the Red-billed Blue Magpie sometimes fail?

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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One nice little story for my blog post lost. I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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