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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Press, 2015), and has also written articles on eBird and bird identification. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Authors George L.

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

10,000 Birds

With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Cattle Egret: 133. American White Pelican: 19. Brown Pelican: 53. American Bittern: 2. Great Blue Heron: 62.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.

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