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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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“Keep your taxonomy out of my field guide” – revisited

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Since 2012, I was fortunate to spend a considerable amount of time birding through southern Borneo almost each year, and this new book meant that I now have four field guides for Borneo at my service. Rheindt: Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago (2016): based on current taxonomy (see above). Order of bird families, non-songbirds.

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

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Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!

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If the beginning birders in your life live in other states, you can always give them IOUs for guides to be published in 2016. Press, 2012). Though, keep in mind that the regional East and West editions are promised for March 2016.). This is also a good time to catch up on supplementary titles, such as guides to bird families.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.