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Operation Duck Drop

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Date: 07 October 2018. Date: 08 October 2018. Date: 09 October 2018. Date: 09 October 2018. I knew we should have used a bigger species! Date: 09 October 2018. Date: 10 October 2018. This might not have been the best species to use. Date: 10 October 2018. Date: 11 October 2018.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of May 2018?

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Saturday, May 5 is Global Big Day , when eBirders around the world strive to collectively encounter as many species as possible. Last year’s Global Big Day accounted for at least 65% of all the bird species on the planet. Unfortunately, family commitments are killing my Big Day or any other kind of birding this weekend.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species. Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”)

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or When Harry Met Mercedes

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Within 140 ac / 60 ha of Rancho Naturalista’s Reserve, there are 500 bird species – or 55% of the nation’s total! Yet, scoring more than 700 species, Mercedes Alpizar soon became “Meche”, the bird guide that we are all familiar with. And yes, sometime in 2018, Mercedes and Harry started dating. km (Manakin Trail).

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Bird Litigation: Spotted Owl v. Barred Owl

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The Northern Spotted Owl is a “ threatened ” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly relating to forestry management plans in the Pacific Northwest. The environmental groups appealed to the U.S.

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Birding a monastery: Zhaga, Western Sichuan

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Maybe these people like challenges – at least here at the monastery, getting good shots of this species is quite easy. Another species apparently enjoying the proximity of a monastery is the White-winged Grosbeak. The Black-rumped Magpie is one of the four new species that were split from the Eurasian Magpie in 2018.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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This second edition covers 685 species found in the continental U.S. and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi.