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National Family Pack Walk Giveaway

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While Scooby and Cesar will lead the walk in Washington, D.C., To enter the giveaway leave a comment on this post before midnight on September 10th, 2012. Here’s what you could win. 1 Fun Net. 1 purple water bottle. 1 Scooby handkerchief. 1 large bowl. 1 small bowl. We will choose a winner at random and contact them by email.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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So, I flew to Chicago, where my daughter directed me to Washington Park in New Hyde Park, the area of Chicago where the University is located. And, there I saw the famous Monk Parakeet nests saved by Mayor Harold Washington. She told me she originally was going to rent a beautiful apartment on the border of Washington Park.

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Reviewing 2011 – My Year in Birds

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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. The Tufted Puffins at Protection Island in Washington State. Will 2012 be as kind a year to me as 2011? Check back to see how my 2012 Year List grows ! Who wouldn’t want to see this bird?

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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The Trumpeter Swans above, for example, winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley, where Hashimoto “attempted to capture the low light and soft grays of winter,” while also rejoicing in this conservation success story–in the early 1960’s the swan numbers in the Valley were down to 15 due to hunting, they now number 11,000.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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©2012 Donna L. And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. photo of Elizabeth Gehrman: Ingrid Skousgard, 2012.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

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As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. The end of the year is nigh and birders the world over are looking over their checklists and reminiscing about their amazing sightings and devastating dips.

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