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

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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. They wrote books and published research. It’s a very mixed chapter. Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps. by James A.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Since 2016, the Rustic Bunting has been listed as Vulnerable, as data suggested rapid population declines (HBW). Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ). led its listing as Vulnerable.

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