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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.

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Flock to Marion

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Birdlife South Africa has previously done two of these types of trips before, previously called Flock to Sea – Namibia in 2013 and Flock to Nowhere in 2017, in partnership with MSC Cruises. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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What the rings reveal

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Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. Once again I did my internet research and managed to contact the person who had ringed the gull. With luck you will get a speedy reply, telling you the bird’s history.

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

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Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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The Beauty of Checklists

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Plus, I usually bird alone, so sharing the experience with a friend is that much better. After contemplating the page, I realized I really do want to see these incredible seabirds, and have been researching pelagic voyages for the near-future. For beginners, such checklists can be even more valuable.

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Cory’s Shearwater Uses Mental Map of Pelagic Odor

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In an elaborate experiment, adult Sheawaters were take away from their nests during nesting season and given a series of treatments, and released hundreds of kilometers away. Anna Gagliardo1, Joël Bried, Paolo Lambardi, Paolo Luschi1, Martin Wikelski, & Francesco Bonadonna4 (2013). Birds Navigation Olfaction research Sheawater'