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

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Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ At the same time I was ogling Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Upland Sandpipers, Marybeth Lima was also birding Louisiana. ’ What was left to write about? ” I wondered.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2013)

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To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! But he really appreciated the Surf Scoters he saw at Shinnecock Inlet out in Suffolk County on Long Island on Saturday so he chose that species. Winter has come early and often to Western NY. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2013)

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This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. I hoped to add the Carolina Wren that’s been hanging around my house to the tally, but settled instead for Northern Cardinal , the most common GBBC species at the midway point.

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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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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. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species. Salvin’s Prion.

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

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My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. This sounds – and is – dark. They don’t, and I know it.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group.

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