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Collaborative List ? May 2020

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This was the month we (in the northern hemisphere) had all been waiting for, but what a strange month May 2020 has been. 7 beats contributed their sightings from 7 countries (Hong Kong, UK, China, USA, Serbia, Australia and, of course, Costa Rica). The post Collaborative List – May 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Our first camping trip of 2020

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When you live by the ocean it is always nice to go camp by a river and we missed that experience whilst the restricted movements prevented us from going too far from home. Some sticky experiences in the mud the week before! We were delighted to see Australian Darters at the river, because it was our first sighting for 2020!

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Zone of Happiness Birding

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Ken Cross lives with his wife Megan and their three children on the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast on Australia’s east coast. Currently he is the convenor for Birdlife Australia in his local area and, as that suggests, he loves sharing his passion for birds and all wildlife through outings and bird walks. Ken Cross]. Ken Cross].

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

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They’re not, but their connection through geography (the corner of the universe that encompasses New Guinea and Australia) and complex, cinematic courtship behavior makes their combination in this book rational, even brilliant. Phil Gregory brings years of field experience to this project. and Sicklebill Safaris.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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2020 will be remembered as a year that we’d like to forget. Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. Our 2020 year list stands at 324 for Victoria and the north of Western Australia combined, so we are more than happy with that under current circumstances. How naïve we were.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos. Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020. A scientific analysis of the bird family was written by Lloyd S.

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