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Birding Balkans: A Play in Two Acts

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ACT I. SCENE I. Iron Gates (Djerdap) national park, Serbia. Small canyon among wooded hills. Morning. Framed by red Permian sandstone, Eric Hyman is staring into the bare branches of a dead tree, or, to be more precise, into some fluttering t**s. Although the sun has risen, the cliffs around us are still deeply shadowed. The entire geological history of the region, from Palaeozoic to Cenozoic, is written in these exposed rock faces of the Boljetin Canyon.

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Tennile + SPOT have given Trevor a new meaning to “lifesaving”

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Trevor Thomas has always had a passion for extreme sports, ranging from backcountry skiing to racing cars. Then suddenly, his entire world changed at age 35 when he learned that he had a rare autoimmune disease with no cure, leaving … Continue reading → The post Tennile + SPOT have given Trevor a new meaning to “lifesaving” appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Why Hawkwatching is So Awesome

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Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013. He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team.

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The Cutest Birds in Costa Rica

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Are all birds created equal? I bet a Common Raven would tell you otherwise, and so would a lot of birders. Blasphemy say ye? Just ask yourself if you feel like giving the same value to a ratty looking Rock Pigeon as a candy-colored Jambu Fruit-Dove. Nothing against the Rocky Pigeon but let’s be honest, if a breeding plumaged Blackburnian Warbler hops into view, It’s pretty easy to forget about that pigeon, Warbling Vireo , or even a Pine Warbler when you can treat the good old retina

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The Greek Strategy

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Have you read my blogs on birding Greece ? Presuming that you live somewhere in Europe and plan a car trip to Greece, let me suggest a couple of routes that will increase your tour list. Driving from France or Germany to Greece, you are likely to pass through my hometown of Belgrade and continue south following the E75 through the FYRO Macedonia. That motorway takes you to the Gevgelija (MAK) – Evzonoi (GR) border crossing.

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The ‘Alal uses tools, Climate Change Hammers Hawaii

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Hawaiian Crows Use Tools. From Nature, “ Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow “: Only a handful of bird species are known to use foraging tools in the wild. Amongst them, the New Caledonian crow ( Corvus moneduloides ) stands out with its sophisticated tool-making skills. Despite considerable speculation, the evolutionary origins of this species’ remarkable tool behaviour remain largely unknown, not least because no naturally tool-using congeners have yet been iden

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2016?

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At last, all around the world, people are noticing how interesting life is becoming. September has always been busy for students and their extended support networks, but running parallel to the course of school and activities is a gradual unfolding of one season into another. Here in the northwestern U.S., leaves are already beginning to turn as migrants filter towards greener lands.

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Sherry Turner Teas: Brown Thrasher vs. Black Widow

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This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds. I was outside by my pool, hosing out some empty cages, when I noticed one of the Brown Thrasher fledglings I had soft released the day before was foraging for the mealworms and blueberries I’d put out on the ground.

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Black-necked Stork on the highway!

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On our recent camping and birding trip to the north of Broome we had an odd experience. We were driving along a windy section of the Great Northern Highway north of Warmun in the Kimberley when I suddenly called out “ Jabiru stood on the road” Grant immediately braked as we came around the corner and right on the double white lines was a young Black-necked Stork.

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Eurasian Jay; Woodsman

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There is a price for everything. For the simple pleasure of watching the Jays drill acorns into my front lawn, I now have to pull out all the little seedlings that made it through the winter and germinated into little oaks. Ash and Oak seedlings. Some of the seedlings have been saved for re-planting you will be pleased to know and I am considering leaving the lawn to revert to oak forest, which shouldn’t take too long if the Jays have their way.

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It’s a warbler kind of day.

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That’s how I will have to describe last Saturday. I took a tour out to Presa Buena Mujer with the idea that I would find a certain group of birds, ones that had frequented that area just 24 hours before. I am pretty sure the birds didn’t get the memo! Friday morning I found Gray Flycatchers, Pyrrhuloxia, Varied and Lazuli Buntings, Phainopepla , along with two of our endemics, the Gray Thrasher , and Xanthus’s Hummingbirds.

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Nature is Tough

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On Saturday morning I was out on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay with Carlos and Anthony enjoying a mid-September search for shorebirds. We had walked up the east side of the pond almost to the north end and then back almost to the south end when we ran into Steve , who pointed out a one-eyed Baird’s Sandpiper to us. We watched the bird for awhile as it foraged and though the injury was painful to contemplate for we humans the bird seemed to be getting by alright.

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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, not a magical place— you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so wonderful for native flora and fauna. Take birds. The endemics that have inhabited the islands from time immemorial are threatened. In particular, the honeycreepers of Kaua’i are at risk of being wiped out , due to disease-spreading mosquitoes.

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American Oystercatchers in Mexico

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Having grown up and spent the majority of my birding life in the Pacific Northwest, it was not uncommon for me to see Black Oystercatchers , wandering the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean. Their solid black bodies, and reddish orange bills, have always been one of the highlights of coastal birding up north. When we sailed to Mexico, I discovered a whole new species, the American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus.

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Oh Sweet Canada! Canucks Vote on Best Bird

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While those of us in the United States are coping with a long, painful, crazy Presidential election process, our genial, civilized, and thoughtful neighbors to the North are doing some voting of their own. The contest: Canada’s national bird. Five candidates made the final cut: Common Loon , Snowy Owl , Gray Jay , Black-capped Chickadee , and of course, Canada Goose , like the specimen above photographed by Daniel D’Auria and posted on Wikimedia Commons.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of October 2016?

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As we move into October, we can see beautiful weather and skies streaming with birds on the horizon. But don’t look too far ahead if you live in the Northern Hemisphere… the dead of winter looms in the distance. Look up instead; you may just see lots of raptors. I’ll be heading down to rural Pennsylvania to try to spot some southbound migrants.

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Morning on Weeks Bay

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Mornings are very important to us Southerners, especially New England transplants like me. During sweltering summers, where my dashboard hits 98 degrees F every damn day, mornings have become my oasis. I can explore outside without sweat dripping from my nose, or wear a T-shirt without worrying that my forearms will scorch in the noon-day sun. I felt especially thankful for the cooler air while boarding a touring boat at the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserv e along the coast of Alaba

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2016)

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For those who track avian migration, each new week may bring a fresh arrival or herald a new departure. Of course, birds only represent a sliver of the near-infinite flora and fauna that, collectively, grows, blooms, dies back, and lapses into dormancy over the course of a year. I’m only musing on seasonal changes because one of my many environmental allergies flared up today.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of September 2016?

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Keep your eyes to the skies for raptors in migration. Fall has, at last, fallen, pretty hard in my part of the world. Fortunately, this season brings more than just pumpkin spice atrocities. Birds have been filtering through even while temperatures were high. As the leaves around here turn, they’ll still be coming. Enjoy! I’ll be trying to adjust to long pants this weekend while kicking around Rochester.

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Endless Birds at Rodman Reservoir

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My NRLI fellowship class zipped across the Rodman Reservoir in two air boats, avoiding the submerged tree trunks leftover from the bottomland forest that once grew here. I visited the reservoir to learn about the environmental controversy surrounding the Rodman Dam (to remove, or not to remove), but the birds completely distracted me. Egrets in the distance.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2016)

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Another gorgeous weekend is, as they say, in the books. Start your week on the right foot by sharing what made the last two days special for you, at least from a nature-loving perspective. I scoured certain areas of the Lake Ontario shoreline for the places migrants are being seen. No luck there, but I did get into a bunch of nice birds, including what I mistakenly thought was my first Brown Thrasher of the year.

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Displaying Great Bustard

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Birds wanting to make more birds often do crazy stuff, and birders are well accustomed to encountering splendid plumage features, impossible feather structures, crazy dances, mad calls and complex songs on the birds they watch. I will therefore refrain from using superlatives to describe the courtship ritual of the male Great Bustard since the evaluation of what is better than the rest is such a subjective matter.

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Hurricane Newton, The aftermath

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In the wee hours of last Monday night, Category 1 hurricane came rolling up the Baja. Striking Cabo San Lucas, then La Paz, before continuing all the way up the Sea of Cortez and thru San Carlos. Here in La Paz, we saw a peak of 85 MPH, with 5-6 inches of rain. My “real job” has me out in the storm all night, and through out the evening, I could not help but wonder what happens to the birds when one of these wind events hit?

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Achoo! Antarctic Penguins Are Catching Bird Flu

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The news that bird flu is spreading to Antarctica isn’t quite as dire as you might expect. That is, the penguins—in this case, Chinstrap Penguins like the one photographed above by Christopher Michel (Wikimedia Commons), and Adélie Penguins —don’t actually seem to be getting sick from avian influenza virus (AIV). But the fact that a second strain of the virus in the past three years has shown up among Antarctic penguins is disturbing, according to scientists r eporting their findings in the Jo

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What to Expect when Birding Costa Rica at Virgen del Socorro

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Coming to Costa Rica? Want to go to Costa Rica? All birders should say yes because the small country where I live is easier to visit than a lot of people think. If the home birding patch is in Canada or the United States of America, it’s not really that far. Get on the plane anywhere from North Carolina to Texas or Florida and we are talking three to four hours.

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How Long Must We Live With These Wildlife Conservation Myths?

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What myths am I referring to? The myths that hunters and anglers pay for the majority of our wildlife conservation (debunked in my post on The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It ) and the misconception that “predator management” is a necessary part of the wildlife conservation equation. A recent article by Richard Foster from Counter Punch titled “ The Fracking of Conservation: State Wildlife Agencies Invite Oil and Gas Industry to Fund Wildlife M

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Blue Jays On the Move

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Many aspects of fall migration are not calculated to appeal to a bone-idle birder such as myself. The warblers are confusing. The raptors are confusing and distant. The shorebirds are confusing AND distant AND you will probably fall into quicksand and die. Far better just to stay inside and write about birds! But that’s sort of cheating. Happily, there is one facet of the fall migration here in NYC that I’ve come to cherish; the annual movement of Blue Jays.

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Finding Shelter

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Finding Shelter is an amazing documentary about an English family who found themselves unexpectedly rescuing street animals in Bulgaria. The film shares how the family has shared love and compassion for the homeless animals in their town. It’s not just … Continue reading → The post Finding Shelter appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Football Foods Pets Should Stay Away From

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Football fare is nearly irresistible for dogs — especially when sitting at eye-level on the coffee table— but even cats can grab a piece of the action. Unfortunately, furry fans who intercept game day grub are likely to catch more … Continue reading → The post Football Foods Pets Should Stay Away From appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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