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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

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I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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Breeding Crested Pigeons in Broome

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The Crested Pigeon family remained in the tree away from danger for quite some time with both parents present. Although Crested Pigeons are quite a common bird Australia-wide you don’t always find a nest, so that you are able to observe the family grow.

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A Most Unexpected Encounter

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But mostly, planning this trip was hugely stressful because I had to renew my passport beforehand, and it turns out that process is tremendously backed up here in Mexico. Once I learned how to achieve those, I couldn’t figure out how to process the photos, which can only be done on the Olympus system.

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Birding the Yinggehai Salt Flats, Hainan

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If you wonder how such a self-referential and obscure joke survived the editing process for this blog post, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process). At least, it does not have to pretend to like wine, unlike its relative, the Spotted Redshank. (If ” (She then warns that this difference is not consistent).

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Myiarchus Mysteries

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While the entire Tyrannidae family of Tyrant Flycatchers is massive, the Myiarchus group of those recorded on these two islands comprises just three species. In the field, the real-time evaluation process can take significantly longer, especially if the visuals are less than ideal. Simple and straightforward enough, right?

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The Fork-tailed Sunbird

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Similarly, both bird families have a distinct significance for humans. In general, it seems sunbirds are doing a bit better in co-existing with humans than many other families. A female: no forked tail, not much color. No wonder that in the past, sunbird parents often preferred male chicks.

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The Fallen Yellowlegs

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Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Elephants, peccaries, and corvids have all been documented processing the death of (as we put it) a loved one. Or was it all dumb luck, the randomness of nature at play, pure coincidence?

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