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Best Bird of the Year – 2013

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People who follow conservation may recall this range overlaps nicely with an area that has suffered a distressing amount of deforestation and general habitat loss in the last few years, and unfortunately this has had a dramatic effect on the species.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2013)

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Here in Western NY, we suffered a 40 point swing in temperature over two days; one moment, you’re enjoying drinks by the pool and the next finds you wrapped in a shawl sipping got cocoa. September is as unpredictable as a month can be. Was your weekend weather clement or cruel?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of June 2013)

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Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. But we naturalists notice them no matter what we’re doing. Aren’t we lucky?

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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

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I was very fortunate to visit the park twice, once in April 2012 and just recently in November 2013, and can fully confirm that the birding is epic. Reading other birder’s travel reports afterwards was quite a shock, and in November 2013 I came back with a vengeance and the knowledge of its calls, leading to multiple encounters.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of June 2013)

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Forgetting how one feels in certain conditions and thus failing to prepare accordingly can lead to a lot of suffering. What I mean here is the way the memory of desert heat becomes impossible to evoke in the depth of winter, or how that same bone-chilling cold is forgotten during a hot and muggy city summer.

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Endangered and Unknown: Black-hooded Antwren

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As is most often the case, lowland rainforest habitats suffered the most with an almost complete loss of this habitat. On October 31st, 2013, Dalcio Dacol and I left our lodging in the small beachside town of Ubatuba well before dawn in order to arrive in the town of Pereque early in the morning. Photo courtesy of Fabio Rage.

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The Cutting Edge II: Hummingbird Feeders

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8,522,717 is titled “Top-Fill Hummingbird Feeder,” and it was issued in September 2013. This latter style suffers from the problem that it must be refilled very often, because the level of food is constantly being reduced by the feeding. The patent then identifies the problem: The so-called “vacuum-type” feeders also have problems.

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