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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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Winter Finch Forecast for 2012-2013

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Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2012-2013. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated by birders across the northeastern United States and eastern Canada because it takes into account a vast array of data to figure out which irruptive species might show up where.

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2011-2012 Winter Finch Forecast

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Though it is largely limited to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, Ron Pittaway’s yearly winter finch forecast is always eagerly anticipated by birders with thoughts of Evening Grosbeaks , Pine Siskins , and Red Crossbills in their heads. Want to know what’s in store for the winter of 2011-2012?

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Another Reason Conservatives are Bad for Birds

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Environment groups were hard hit in the first round in 2012-13, but the net has since widened to snare social justice and poverty groups, among others. Remember, voting for conservatives is almost always bad for birds. Politics Canada'

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill!” “How did that bird get here?”

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My Birding Buddies

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It was apparently all the way back in 2012, when I was first getting back into birding after a 30 year hiatus, that I took a sad little picture, with my sad little camera, of a cute little bird that seemed to not show up anywhere at all in my field guide. Still, sorry! ”, I could feel my self-esteem climbing.

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The Joy of One-eyed Birding

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But there is an old quote I always carry with me when I bird: “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” (Desiderius Erasmus). and I never bird on an empty stomach. I rarely bird more than an hour from my home, because my wife expects me back by 2 p.m. I am, you see, only a mediocre birder. or the U.K.;

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