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The Juniper Titmouse Nesting Project

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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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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. However, in 2017, the journal published a paper with the (spoiler alert!) A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts.

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How to See 300 Bird Species in 3 Days

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Those who only raise binoculars within their own backyards might also decide one day to venture further afield to look for the ones in the field guides that aren’t making it into their limited sphere of birding. Some lowland and foothill birding.

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Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome

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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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The the mid year winners are….

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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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Birding Puerto Rico’s Humacao Nature Reserve

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It was also nice to see a Magnificent Frigatebird soar overhead and it really paid keeping our eyes to the skies as later in the morning when Mike spotted another frigatebird and we raised our bins to watch it he also spotted a Caribbean Martin up there which ended up being our only one of the trip. …

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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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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