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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. You see, it is all connected. But I didn’t get to that either. ” Crows are smart.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S. That’s a lot of birding.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). Fish and Wildlife Service.

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

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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. The book is structured in a way that made much more sense after I read it than as I was reading it. ” I wondered.

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Peterson Guide to Bird Identification—In 12 Steps: A Book Review

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And, in a letter in the May/June 2013 issue, Howell commits himself to encouraging “the many people who use bird checklists to think for themselves, to actively engage and question the various committees that pass judgment; and even sometimes to question the primary literature on which decisions are based. Species are useful handles (p.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

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In 2013, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.” But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities. Indeed, there appears to be just one.

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