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MARCH 2, 2011

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

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MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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MARCH 3, 2011

You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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Honduras 2011 Deer Denmark 145

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MARCH 15, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Audubon Rebrand Audubon Rebrand By Mike • March 15, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share I’ve come to see the National Audubon Society more as a fine conservation organization than a fun birding society.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 133

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MARCH 16, 2011

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 143

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MARCH 14, 2011

And, sure enough, as the sun set birds came over in ones and twos and fours and fives, adding to what was already a pretty darn big flock of birds spread out on the West Pond. Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 168

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MARCH 17, 2011

If you’re looking to maximize your odds of getting one of these guides, you might want to tell me which plate in The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is your favorite and why in 100 or fewer words. These Blasts From The Past Birding with a Bag Now With 75% More Phoebes! What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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2011 Deer New York Owls 140

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MARCH 7, 2011

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 189

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MARCH 11, 2011

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

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MARCH 8, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida By James • March 8, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by shorebirds.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 183

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 195

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MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

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MARCH 14, 2011

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

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MARCH 14, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or 10K Birds is Top Ten About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Not good.

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2011 Deer Pro-Test Wildlife 173

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MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

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MARCH 1, 2011

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 199