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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. In the all too brief introduction to the book, they state, “This book aims to shed light on the family lives of birds, a topic that has captured our collective imagination and enriched our language despite being shrouded in mystery.”. Egg biology, from Part I. Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. The birds thrive.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). To remedy this, I visited the Animal Diversity Web site at the University of Michigan.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. And so to summer. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes).

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. Big Egg Marsh. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month. 25 Apr 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

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The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. Big Egg Marsh. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month. 25 Apr 2016.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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Mystery images were one of the innovations of The Shorebird Guide (2006, co-authored by Crossley with Michael O’Brien and Kevin T. The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections.

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