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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

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There are a few places where that is especially obvious, and one of those is the town of Cape Coral, just north of Naples along the Gulf of Mexico. You can tell which abandoned lots host owls by a small roped off area with the tell-tale t-bars that the owls perch upon.

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Loner, Drifter: More on the Hoary Bat

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The species ranges north well into Canada in the summer months, but in the winter they make for the southern coasts or down to Mexico. They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. So the Hoary Bat is migratory.

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”. Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8

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Half Hardy

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The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds. The proposal from U.S.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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The Dry Tortugas: A Must for Birders

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The United States built Fort Jefferson on Garden Key between 1846 to 1875 to protect its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, but was later abandoned without ever being fully completed.