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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. ” I was thinking how handy drones would be for the annual aerial survey of eagle nests and for my own personal nest checking around private property and began pricing drones online.

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What do you get a bird-lover who has everything?

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Your gift recipient will receive a 5×7 photograph of the bird, a 2013 Audubon calendar, and a one-year subscription to the award-winning Audubon magazine, which features some of the best environmental reporting and photography on the planet. And hey, maybe that’s you – we don’t judge here.)

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Maharashtra, February 2013. At the far end of the lake stands a tall, dry tree with an eagle that we are struggling to determine and it remains a dark silhouette far too far. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more!

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Birds & People.

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Birding in the Dark

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“Birder is what birder do” they say, and so I happily returned to the area of the Red-breasted Goose fail three months later, in February 2013, full of the optimism that a new year (and having beaten Corey in the year list competition) brings. No, I also have no idea what caused that eerie and unnatural blue background.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. Brown, C., & Bomberger Brown, M.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

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It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. The publication of this new title is again an occasion for excitement (how can you can you not get excited when looking at photographic layouts like the one of Bald Eagles shown above?)