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Reviewing 2011 – My Year in Birds

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Finishing a year with 372 species is nothing to sneeze at and the fact that I added twenty-five birds to my ABA list was nice. I begin 2012 with 284 birds on my Queens Life List , 478 birds on my ABA Life List , and 1,048 birds on my World Life List. Will 2012 be as kind a year to me as 2011? What did I see? And burrowing!

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The Effects of Wildfires on Wildlife

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According to the study, since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread across an additional 16,000 square miles than they otherwise would have—an area larger than the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined 1. Click on graph for large sized image. .”

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist

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The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow. Text is necessarily brief, focusing in on what you need to know in order to separate out one species from another. A different colored tab and page edge denotes each chapter.

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Predicting My Next Ten Queens Birds

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Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. The godwit was my forty-first shorebird species in Queens.).

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What Will My Next Ten Birds in Queens Be?

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In fact, the last one was back on 15 May 2012 when my Queens list stood at 289 and I guessed what my next eleven birds would be that would get me to 300. Now my Queens list stands at a whopping 302, which means I have actually added thirteen species since my last predictions.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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In reverse order, the medals were awarded for “most species seen in a country”, to Australia with 420, USA got the silver, scoring 556 while the runaway winner was Costa Rica with 646 species. Connecticut Warbler – Oporornis agilis. And Pat gets to keep the awards in the remainder of the categories.

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