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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.

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

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Thanks for visiting!

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Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The.

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It is useful, beautiful, well-made, chock full of great birds and conservation information, and will make you dream of Brazil. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. You want this field guide.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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The accounts are as good as you would expect and include information on appearance, habitat, behavior, and vocalizations. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience. Thanks for visiting!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Both appear almost childishly simple on the surface, and reveal layers of surprising information on repeated viewings and readings. I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves (that’s all there are) and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments¬ ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle.