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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of August 2014?

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Many Northern Hemisphere birders see summer as the nadir of the annual bird watching experience. If you see him next to you with bins raised, chances are you’re in the right place! Keep your eyes to the skies, especially when you’re above the clouds in the Andes ! How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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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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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. I sat for hours, dreamily watching those rocks raising to the sky, covered by the dense primary vegetation of this subtropical area. Where are my binos?”

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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The Duck Stamp and Lack of National Wildlife Refuge Funding

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and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. Create a second fund-raising stamp for wildlife watchers. The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. Case in point. We have a very simple solution.

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