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MAY 17, 2015

He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back.

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APRIL 19, 2015

Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. This month introduces change for the better, movement from one state to another, and a season that unfolds magically week after week. And also birds, also cool!

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JULY 31, 2015

I’ll be trying to drag my family on some sort of hike this weekend. Corey had no trouble dragging his family to Honduras, where he’ll surely see more interesting birds than me! Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill, Streams laugh that erst were quiet, The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Anything else we could say about this great book would only be more in the way of superlatives. (And the price has not increased since 2015; it’s a bargain.).

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APRIL 5, 2015

Actually, signs that winter won’t release its icy grip so readily are also apparent… my traditional Easter family hike was canceled on account of snow. Signs of spring are evident everywhere winter once held sway. Our travels this weekend took us on the New York State Thruway, which passes through Montezuma NWR.

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JUNE 21, 2015

I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. This weekend delivered the longest days of the year to those of us on the top half of the world. Hope you made the most of that extra daylight!

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JUNE 9, 2015

The photo above depicts three fledglings I encountered on the morning of March 31, 2015. We saw ravens in southern Manhattan through the winter and spring of 2015 (I even saw one with a bagel , confirming that they are right at home here in New York). But let’s back up for a minute. I think that’s something to celebrate.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. The winds this weekend in western New York must have been favorable for migration, because the only nonresident I could track down was a Swainson’s Thrush.

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AUGUST 9, 2015

My travels with family to the coast of Virginia have already yielded a bevy of birds I usually only see once a year. Summer often means vacation. Vacations mean travel. Travel means new ecosystems. New ecosystems mean new birds. See why I love summer?

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JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. The past week has been invigorating for Americans who support freedom, dignity, and equality. Hopefully you celebrated by enjoying some fine birds!

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MAY 24, 2015

Corey is still enjoying a long Memorial Day weekend with his family in Delaware but wanted to share that his Best Bird of the Weekend thus far was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow calling in the predawn darkness at Cape Henlopen State Park. How about you?

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MAY 25, 2022

Green-tailed Towhee , San Miguel de Allende, December 2015. Earlier this month, I came across a family of Spotted Towhees (Olive-backed) with a couple of other strange aspects. Canyon Towhees , Cañada de los Filtros Viejos. Green-tailed Towhee , Tres Cerritos, March 2021. But it still shows no spots.

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JULY 16, 2015

I’m excited to be camping with my family in the Adirondacks this weekend. However, even the most jaded among us should be able to appreciate the appearance and behavior of fledglings and juveniles. Canada Geese are never as interesting as when escorting those adorable goslings!

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. But the text was last updated in 2015 while the DNA research was done in 2018. It can have up to 8000 pieces and takes 3 to 6 weeks to complete” ( source ). The name is dutch-german for hammerhead.

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MARCH 23, 2020

The last ten birds have taken a very long time: when I last asked what I would add to my Queens list it was September 21, 2015 ! Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. That’s long time! I must stare at the ocean a lot.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

It seems to me that Lynx Edicions must know Vedran, too, and it was with him in mind that their authors, David W Winkler, Shawn M Billerman and Irby J Lovette, chose the “Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds” as the full title of their new edition. Families perhaps? It weighs 3.7

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Schmitt is a lecturer on Ponant Antarctic cruises who lived in Chile from 2005 to 2015, and helped develop the eBird online birding tool for Chile and the rest of South America. Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). Sullivan, 2015), Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast (with Brian L.

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JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” The latest press release from the USFWS. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

A 65% loss of population between 1966 and 2015 is no joke. Of course, Bobolinks are grassland birds and like many grassland birds they’ve suffered a long dangerous decline as the grasslands of the U.S. are developed or otherwise lost. Their breeding population stands at about 8 million, according to Partners in Flight.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. My desk is littered with general field guides, guides to specific families, books about bird behavior, and books about status and distribution of birds in New York while my browser is always opened to eBird and xeno-canto.

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JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They were simply sent to Family Court. In the following days harrowing photos of dead birds and severed body parts were posted on social media pages. Gutierrez was 18.

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. Louisiana is a magical place to bird.

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DECEMBER 28, 2014

Galahs and Red-tailed Black Cockatoos called noisily overhead and the honeyeater family were represented by Brown Honeyeaters, Yellow-tinted Honeyeaters and Rufous-throated Honeyeaters. We observed a Grey-crowned Babbler flying out of a Boab tree and soon realised that it had come out of a roost where the family group will gather.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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JULY 24, 2017

The vireo image at the top of this post is actually from our camping trip in 2015.). So take your non-birding family, friends, and acquaintances camping and let them see and hear the natural world through your senses. Though not exactly a snazzy bird, the vireo’s closeness made up for its lack of bright colors.

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MAY 3, 2016

Organization: The guides are organized taxonomically (by scientific group), according to the 17th edition of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) Check-list of North American Birds , including changes through the 56th supplement, which came out in 2015. And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get.

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MAY 5, 2015

The bird family accounts are wonderfully informative, especially if you are a birder (like me) who knows enough to know what family a bird belongs to, but still has trouble differentiating amongst specific species within the family. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2015. by Kevin Karlson and Dale Rosselet.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior.

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APRIL 1, 2017

As birders, we tend to spend more time in wetlands than most of our peers, neighbors, and family members. Along with the other two members of the finfoot family, the Sungrebe is a super cool weird bird. Such sites being wonderful habitat for mosquitoes and other little biting nasties, we can’t really blame them.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. September 15, 2015. by Nate Swick, illustrations by Robert Brandt. Page Street Publishing, 176 pages, 9.3 Kindle edition available Sept.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Their text is combined with 200 (rough count) brightly colored photographs, many full or three-quarter page in size, and 10 charts and diagrams.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Robert Gallardo’s self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras came out in 2015, and is the first bird field guide dedicated to that country. (I Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts.

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MAY 30, 2015

The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.

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