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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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And squirrels. Aggravatingly, many squirrels. How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works).

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ).

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel. A giant squirrel, actually. Attack of the giant squirrels from Mars. Or something like that.

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