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Foundational Work

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Back when I first appeared on eBird for Michoacán, in 2012, the state’s Top “100” list only had 22 names by years’ end. Well, Chester Lamb was a researcher for University of California, Berkeley… who died in 1965. The key word here may be “Third” [Bird Festival, that is].

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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January 27, 2012 Reports leak that BP chose to hide its own internal estimates of the scale of the spill. February 27, 2012 Reports of large marine animal strandings in the Gulf of Mexico continue to pile up in the first two months of 2012. April 16, 2012 BP Oil Spill Settlement is extended by judge.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. But that’s another story. Here’s the idea.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. They wrote books and published research. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. But now there is some research on that. The research used banding and racking technology to characterize winter time home ranges.

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