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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. • Explore These Related Posts Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2011?

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White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. Mar 2nd, 2011 at 3:03 pm What a fortuitous stop Larry! Corey Mar 2nd, 2011 at 7:57 pm These shots are great. Dawn Fine Mar 4th, 2011 at 8:31 pm Nice shots Larry!

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. Corey Mar 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am Excellent post, as usual, David. I shall not tolerate such nonsense.

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Birding Magee Marsh

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But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. Struik, 2011).

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. It’s app is pretty terrific too.).

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. Jan Axel Mar 12th, 2011 at 8:07 pm Interesting choices, and congratulations to the winner!

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