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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE!

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A Question of Migration

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Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.)

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