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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2019)

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Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend.

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover. Nothing, that’s what.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of July 2019)

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Though Corey arrived in Southern California late Friday night, he didn’t get much birding in this weekend other than dipping on a Nazca Booby at Dana Point after delaying his departure to go look for it to accompany his family to the beach. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. In 2019, it is hard to imagine birding without eBird. GPS-tracked miles.

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

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And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There’s more than one song per warbler? The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound.

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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I first encountered Molly Hashimoto’s bird art in California. Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. Skipstone, 2019.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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The amount of knowledge gained from reading Mastering Bird Photography, the resulting improvement in your photographic images, the increase in your enjoyment of the experience–these are your probable gains. Rocky Nook, 2019 (eBook December 2018; paperback March 2019). The last two chapters point us to the future.

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