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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. The Condor, 2015; 117 (4): 485 DOI: 10.1650/CONDOR-15-6.1. Then one day they are gone. Here’s one of the maps from that paper: *FIGURE 1.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face. Population estimates from “Birds of Serbia: Breeding Population Estimates and Trends”, BirdLife Serbia, 2015.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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His guides include our own Patrick O’Donnell, who leads Dunn on a quest to see as many hummingbird species as possible across Costa Rica in just two days, an adventure described in his 2015 post “ A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica.”) Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. “Wait!” ” you’re probably saying. This is a book about the Bronx?!”