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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Composition is composition, suggestions for photographing birds from a car or a boat or in fog apply no matter what camera you are using. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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

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in 2011*) came about. I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. 8 Responses to “Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds&# Duncan Mar 12th, 2011 at 3:39 am Brandt’s Cormorants are dreary? Corey Mar 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am Excellent post, as usual, David. Good day sir.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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A mozzie bites me, so I take the “Expedition Plus Insect Repellent” from my rucksack (when I think about it now, any local brand would probably be equally efficient, but they lack the word “expedition” which immediately turns you into a proper explorer) and start spraying my hands and neck. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. London: Christopher Helm, imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. No birds died during the translocation and the one-year survival rate was 58% in the 2011 and 96% in the 2012. The photos are from the USFWS Flickr album of the initial translocation in 2011. 2011): 265-272.

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A great week for Wood-Warblers

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Our first shopping trip when we arrived in Florida was to buy a field guide and that afternoon we thought we had a soft drink can sitting on a fence-you know the brand-no, it’s not that…it’s a cardinal! Read about them here but also get out and experience them.