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Calling All Kids! (And Those Who Bird With Them!)

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All the details are here , and the deadline is June 30th , 2014. To sum up, adults (age 22 or older as of June 30) should write a short essay describing a “memorable birding experience while mentoring one or more young birders.” The adult winner will receive brand-new Leica Trinovid 42 bins.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Her photos have appeared in numerous magazines, educational exhibits, calendars, and she has won prestigious photography awards. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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

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Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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By September 2014, there were an estimated 164 Millerbirds on Laysan. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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Elizabeth’s experience and ingenuity, for example, can be seen in her lithograph of Langsdorff’s Aracari; there was only a single specimen in a German collection and its tail was mutilated, so she obscured the tail in her plate by placing it behind a large leaf (pp. but not too large, and not overwhelmingly heavy.

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