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MARCH 5, 2023

In 2017 the arrival of the Magpie Geese warned us of the high rainfall ahead and then they bred in the area. This year we have had high numbers of Magpie Geese once again in the Broome area and this last weekend we observed our first family groups for the season. The Magpie Geese bred again in the Broome area during 2018.

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Geese Breeding Australia 2017 147

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

For the last several years, I have produced a small run of calendars for my fiends and family. The best 12 images of the previous year.

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2017 Culling 2016 Birds 125

Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Here are the sentences that I want to bring attention to: The family of Irv Bell, 64, has been growing hogs in Zanesville, Ohio, since the 19th century.

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Gestation Crates Farming Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

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MARCH 26, 2017

On Saturday he dragged his family to the Adirondack Mountains to see a stake out Great Gray Owl in Keene, a first for all three in the family. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the easiest to decide that he can remember.

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2017 Owls Birds Woodpeckers 112

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Remember those lazy days of summer, the doldrums during which you could catch up on family time, work, or less birdy hobbies? Corey and family can be found in the Hudson Valley. Don’t look now, but the season we are in is rapidly giving way to the next. The summer stall, if that ever really settled in where you live, is lifting.

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2017 Birds Family 100

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APRIL 28, 2022

Carrie answered the question in a 2017 post , stating that “In general, the Europeans of yore assigned the common name ‘rail’ to members of the family with longer bills and ‘crake’ to the birds with stubby ones.” ” (She then warns that this difference is not consistent).

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Birds 2017 Fish Species 210

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JULY 16, 2017

Luckily, I made it to Cobbs Hill Park for a quick walk, which turned up a frenetic Northern Flicker family. As mentioned, I toiled away in what will soon be a new garden for much of the recreational portion of my weekend. Oh, how I love the Polka Dot Woodpecker , as does Corey, who clearly also enjoys taking pictures of them. How about you?

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2017 Birds Woodpeckers Experience 100

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

Corey had a great weekend in his hometown visiting his family and making a couple visits to local birding hotspots. I was fortunate to not only run into some tasty year birds like Pectoral Sandpiper but also some local birders I knew only by name. Always nice to know the people whose eBird lists you use for field intelligence!

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2017 Birds Experience Experiments 100

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AUGUST 6, 2017

I was so crippled with envy over Corey’s current Neotropical sojourn (with a few family commitments thrown in) that I could barely bring myself to look at birds at all. If your circle of friends reside closer to the South Pole, you probably hear fond thoughts of the approach of spring.

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Guatemala 2017 Turkey Birds 100

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

I’ll be heading (but not technically migrating) to NYC for a family visit that will likely be woefully bereft of bird spotting. A slightly smaller subset of those autumnal advocates also envision all the migrants still streaming across the skies. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2017 Birds Family 100

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Because Corey and his family just journeyed to Belize for some serious Neotropical bird looking! Don’t you love that? I’ll be hanging around Rochester this weekend, too paralyzed with envy to get any decent birding done. Why so jealous? How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Belize 2017 Birds Family 100

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APRIL 14, 2017

I have much to celebrate, as my family and I are embarked on a Spring Break sojourn to Panama by way of Canada. For many people around the world, the coming weekend carries spiritual meaning, symbolic of rebirth and renewal. And chocolate bunnies. And colorful eggs. And lots and lots of birds. Celebrate your way!

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Panama 2017 Canada Eggs 100

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

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JUNE 30, 2017

I’ll be entertaining family from out of town this weekend and fear that we’ll never get out where the interesting birds are. If you’re celebrating Canada Day or Independence Day, you may be in position to enjoy a long weekend rich with cookouts, fireworks, and general summer fun. If you live outside the U.S.,

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2017 North America Canada Birds 100

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. In 2017, my neighborhood, Aldea de Santa Fe, began a Juniper Titmouse Nesting Box Project in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch Program. A total of 79 fledged, which beat our 2017 count of 52.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 152

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JUNE 19, 2020

For the last several years, my first out-of-town trip of the summer takes me to the east side of Lake George in northern New York, for a relaxing mid-June weekend with my family at a lakeshore cabin belonging to a family friend.

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New York 2017 Adoptable Family 154

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Will there be more in 2017–more birds, more places, more friends? I’m heading down to NYC for family festivities, though you won’t find me in Times Square rocking in the New Year. Do you see the ones you wanted to see, in the places you desired to visit, with the friends whose camaraderie you appreciate?

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2016 2017 Birds Family 112

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

She started guiding at Rancho in 2016, only to embark upon a Costa Rica Big Year in the next, 2017. My other guide, Mercedes Alpizar, grew up near the Rancho in the Turrialba area, graduated in Ecological Tourism and studied English at the University of Costa Rica. Why go that far?

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Costa Rica Rats Parrots Raccoons 247

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Just about anywhere a birder ventures, the miniscule members of the latter family can be seen, and in most tropical locales, it’s not just one species. Talamanca Hummingbird. White-crested Coquette.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. The photos of Sultan Tit that I got at Hongbenghe in 2017 were much better than the ones I got on Hainan in 2022. I am only joking! Birds should be free. A worrying trend.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

The birding has been rewarding as always and we have been able to add several birds to the 2017 year list that we may not see around Broome every year. I am not expert on our local wildflowers and scientists are constantly finding new species in remote areas of the Kimberley, so for some of the flowers I can only give you a family name.

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2017 Australia Ducks Family 100

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MARCH 27, 2017

Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one. I, on the other hand, enjoy living with my family and would like to keep doing that. Family twitching?

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New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Shorebirds in Action begins with introduction to various families, as a framework for later discussions. The buttonquails are only briefly mentioned here, while the skuas, auks, terns and gulls are families not generally regarded as shorebirds and are therefore not covered. Publisher: Whittles Publishing, 2017.

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Botswana 2017 Groups Europe 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

It is with that in mind, and given that we are pretty much half way through this year, that I have picked my top twenty images for 2017. I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families.

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Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 108

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APRIL 22, 2021

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago describes all 1,456 bird species (39 species more than in the first edition) within 107 bird families known to occur in the region, including 628 endemics (27 endemics more than in the 1st edition) and 10 species yet to be formally described (down from 18 in the 1st edition).

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Their text is combined with 200 (rough count) brightly colored photographs, many full or three-quarter page in size, and 10 charts and diagrams. This is a beautifully designed book.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

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MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. 314 – Sooty Shearwater , 13 May 2017: Yes! I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto. Western Tanager – Pretty unlikely but a guy can dream, right? 1 out of 2!).

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2018 2015 Birds 2019 159

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JUNE 4, 2017

After a very good Wet Season with substantially more rain than normal over the first few months of 2017 the land was flooded and a huge variety of birds arrived in the Broome area to take advantage of the ideal conditions for breeding. The more brightly coloured female bird remained at the back of the family group as they swam to shore.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

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MAY 25, 2023

However, in 2017, the journal published a paper with the (spoiler alert!) And do not attract as much attention to yourself as the Common Cuckoo in this video. The Journal “Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System” is not a regular source for bird-related information.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

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MARCH 14, 2022

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We encounter a family participating in a hawk watch count at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park; birder and activist Madeleine Sandefur, who introduces us to Sabal Palms Sanctuary in Brownsville, on the south side of a border wall built in 2009; and birders who are actually birding, identifying an oriole (Altamira rather than Hooded).

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Advocacy Mexico United States Texas 267

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Recently, while guiding ABA 2017 Big Year winner Yve Nagy Morrell in Costa Rica for a handful of days, we found ourselves trying for just a few more. The next day saw us making our way to El Tapir for close views of the Snowcap , a surreal fairy of a creature that stands out in an already surreal family.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 148

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MARCH 7, 2017

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

You can find the Pygmy Marmoset’s family feeding tree by looking for its markings on the trunk, similar to those made by sapsuckers. Princeton University Press, 2017. Princeton University Press, 2017. Warbler Rainfrog is one of the few rainfrogs that prefers disturbed habitats. Paperback, 224p., Paperback, 288p.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As the story goes, the family that first planted the vineyard that became Dancing Crow were working their land in the shadow of Mount Konecti in the 1850s, painstakingly marking the spacing and orientation of their future vine rows using straws stuck into the earth. Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017). Birds and Booze News.

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2017 Nevada California Italy 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2017

Whether you are a hard-core birder or a family out for a nature walk I think you will enjoy visiting. … This is the first in a series of posts about Mike and Corey’s self-guided trip to Puerto Rico from 14-18 January 2017. Make sure to come back soon for the next installment. …

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Puerto Rico Birds Woodpeckers 2017 106