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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

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On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order. I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl.

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

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2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions. The material on Boreal Owl is a wonderfully condensed account about the species’ sexual dimorphism and its relationship to breeding plus the link between the species’ cyclical abundance and the red-backed vole.

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

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The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing. Map by Lynn Hathaway.

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It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!

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Mack tells the story of how he set up a research station, and a life, in Papua New Guinea. Press, 2012). Two books came out this year that combine stunning photographs, the kind you want to frame, with comprehensive research on birds. Mack (Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014) for Birding.

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Rare Birds of North America: A Book Review

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The authors set June/July 2011 as the cut-off date, and were able to add noteworthy records up to November 2012, the date the manuscript was sent to the publisher. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. ” It’s odd. What does it mean in the larger sense?

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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Jackson, 2012. Rapai reprints an editorial from the 1904 Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club that will remind many birders of more recent discussions on the Internet concerning the publication of owl and bird nest locations, its language only a little bit more civilized! photo by Lynn C.

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Sungei Buloh – Singapore’s Finest Wetlands

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SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 2012 – Ask any birder where you should go birding in Singapore and the short list will always include Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , this city-state’s finest wetlands. Birdlife International has classified the Chinese Egret as Vulnerable, with researchers pegging the total population somewhere around 3,000.

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