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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2017)

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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the five Atlantic Puffins he saw on Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He’ll be sure to share pictures once he’s back home and has access to his computer again. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of October 2017)

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So on Sunday morning he looked at Big Egg Marsh, which has a larger amount of saltmarsh habitat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He didn’t find a Nelson’s so he gave up and went to the East Pond at Jamaica Bay where he hoped to find some late shorebirds.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. I also would have liked more specific information on the studies themselves–authors, years, where I can read them. This is a beautifully designed book. The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound.

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The Traveling Birder

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Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.