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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience

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Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds. Wicked, right?

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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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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birding / Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? By Mike • March 17, 2011 • 24 comments Tweet Share Happy St. fantastic capture!

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up there at all–I was working on a chaotic project at work, the economy was in crisis (well, the economy is always in crisis, but this was the summer of 2011, as in Black Monday crisis), and the tour itself was not confirmed till two months before the start date.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2011)

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Tufted Puffins foraging off Protection Island on a boat trip from Port Townsend, WA? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How do you like six (!) What was your best bird of the weekend?

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The Raven

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The Common Raven in these pictures was photographed at a picnic area in Olympic National Park in August of 2011. It was scavenging in the picnic areas and was more than willing to accept handouts from those who offered them and to steal from inattentive or unwary picnickers that left food unattended.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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