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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2017)

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Now that the odometer on year lists has rolled back to zero, you’re probably eagerly looking forward to beginning the bird hunt anew. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Happy New Year! But take a moment first to appreciate your final sightings of the year gone by.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. Illustration for Ioana Seritan’s “More Than Skin Deep: Working in the Prep Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology” © 2017 by Robert A. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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

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The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing? Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Aisholpan will not be considered a true Eagle Hunter till she successfully hunts.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.

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

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The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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