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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2011)

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There was the White Ibis in New Jersey , the Caspian Tern , the Buff-bellied Sandpiper , another White Ibis , this one in New York’s Orange County, a Bald Eagle , and a host of other birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. 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?

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Dale Rosselet is an educator, and tour leader, associated since 1983 with New Jersey Audubon, where she is currently Vice-president for Education. I am not a stranger to the BBI system.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Struik, 2011). The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one.

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