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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of January 2017)

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The year 2016 is done and gone and 2017 beckons us onward, bright and new and shiny, hopefully full of birds. Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful 2017, full of amazing birds and experiences. Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful 2017, full of amazing birds and experiences.

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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

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We work with the best guides so our guests not only have outstanding hotel services in Mindo Cloud Forest, but they will also have a top-notch experience. Julia Patiño has 20+ years of experience guiding in birding tours and is one of the first women guides in Ecuador! She has a very broad knowledge of species.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. Bring on 2017! It was a good birding year. 4) Small Pratincole. 7) Piping Plover.

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What the rings reveal

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I discovered that it had been ringed on 26 September 2016 at Iken, on the River Alde on the Suffolk coast, so almost exactly four years before my sighting. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2016)

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Don’t think we’ve noticed that most of you don’t play along with this game of sharing the best–meaning the coolest, rarest, fanciest, or dearest–bird species you’ve spotted in a given weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Broadly speaking, they were not.)

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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