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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Baby Boom … in Great Britain?

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As a backup plan, researchers captured some Spoonies in Siberia in 2011 and brought them to England , where they’ve been raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Two different females among the captive group have laid eggs , and scientists are keeping a watchful eye on a few others.

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Common Gallinule, the lost Moorhen

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I felt like I needed to do some research into why this change occurred. David J Ringer , on January 11th, 2011 wrote a story called Moorhen Mania: Splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs.

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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. Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.

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

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There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first two questions were never definitely answered.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. I am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds. Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.”

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left.

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Frogs and Toads of the World: A Book Review by a Fairy Tale Junkie

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Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. But, within the frog group there is a tremendous range of diversity. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. 200 photos.

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