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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of February 2014)

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The Feral Pigeon has many virtues to admire, but who is going to brag about encountering one of those? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. As much as I love hearing about and sharing Best Birds of the Weekend, sometimes I have cause to ponder just what that term means.

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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. 101(4), 1989, pp.

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Are You Going to the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

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I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. Ditto for the feral Muscovy Ducks , though they are a bit less nice. I currently have 164 species on my Florida life list, which has been built entirely upon my two previous experiences at Space Coast. I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015!

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is this the type of avian experience we want? Passenger Pigeons, for example. We know what those large flocks were like.

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