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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2020)

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Though I traveled to NYC this weekend, Ivy and I nailed down our best bird before I left; a Short-eared Owl has been hunting at a local park not 10 minutes from our house, which makes for the easiest owl sighting we’ve snagged in a long time! The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. There are (as of 2020) approximately 550,000 world-wide users of eBird. Of course, many eBirders live outside the U.S., so the American contribution to eBird is lower.

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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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. ” copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads. 167, Meadowlark line of sight–not p.67).

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South East Queensland [SEQ] Birding Destinations – Lady Elliot Island.

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On Lady Elliot Island in our southern Barrier Reef, where I visited in late 2020, the Black Noddies began breeding recently in 1985. Eastern Reef Egrets, mostly white phase, hunt the shallow reefs when the low tide allows. Keeping the differences going, it regurgitates food to its young, behaviour more typical of gulls than terns.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan.

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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. 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. Since three times is a charm, I nominate the Sparkling-tailed hummingbird for my 2020 BBOTY.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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They are also hunted. Though it’s dry terrain and hunting might be hard here, there are good nesting sites, cool and shady, with some impressive snags rising thirty or forty feet, with bowls large enough to accommodate the massive belly of a brooding female Great Gray. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

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