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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., I’m not quite sure where I was at the time, probably working, and it was six more years till I got my state Henslow’s Sparrow at Shawangunk NWR (a shorter drive and a more cooperative bird). a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.) Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ” I wondered.

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And So It Begins

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While I can’t convince myself to be excited about my First-Of-Year House Sparrows , almost anything else is exciting. We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. He has lots of experience with its close relative in Morelia, the endemic Spotted Wren. I can’t resist loving my first week of birding each year.

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