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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. A 2014 Smithsonian study concluded that collisions likely kill 365 million to 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., I’m not sure which format is the most affecting, probably both equally.)

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Birding Cuba, or Observación de aves en Cuba

10,000 Birds

They nest in palms, and we found a small area where we observed several couples investigating and preparing nest holes. Cervera on April 30th, 1927, and a recent sighting (no photographs or video) in November 2014 by ornithologist Andy Mitchell and naturalist Angel Martinez. The wren comes in! Then up and around us to the other side.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.