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

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The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. ” I’m down as the observer of a White Pelican at the Whitestone Bridge on Dec. Which is true.

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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. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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And in the middle of a heatwave of the 2012 summer, I was heading to Sarajevo and Jahorina Mountain, a major venue of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. No other scars were visible.

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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. Breeding and wintering locations of Common Loons in western Maine (Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes region), USA, that received PTTs in 2011 and 2012.*.

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