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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 24 May 2016. 22 May 2016. 22 May 2016. 22 May 2016. 22 May 2016.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards (backdating has not been ruled out, but logistics make it unlikely) for a particular location or simply study the rest of the checklist from which the link was chosen. 27 Jun 2016. 26 Jun 2016. 26 Jun 2016. 23 Jun 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – July 2016

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Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016. 17 Mar 2016. 20 Feb 2016. 28 May 2016. 22 Jan 2016. 08 Jan 2016. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. 01 Jan 2016. 22 Jan 2016. 10 Feb 2016.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. 27 Aug 2016. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016. 17 Mar 2016. 20 Feb 2016. 28 May 2016. 22 Jan 2016. 08 Jan 2016. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. 01 Jan 2016. 22 Jan 2016.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

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All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne. You will not find the Australian Wood Duck in the HBW, as they prefer the name Maned Duck for it.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.