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National Family Pack Walk Giveaway

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This year’s National Family Pack Walk will prove, once again, that it’s not your average walk in the park. mile walk around the National Mall will be led by Cesar and Scooby, followed by an afternoon packed with Scooby-Doo-themed activities such as arts & crafts, a reading lounge, game tents, a scavenger hunt, and more!

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Birding in a Hellmouth

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The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. As if this wasn’t enough, we also managed to see, distantly, a family of White-crowned Hornbills , one of Borneo’s rarest hornbills. A Bat Hawk hunting bats. I think we caught perhaps three bats.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. An identification guide for an overlooked bird family? It’s a very mixed chapter. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. And for good reason.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there.

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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

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The oft-told tale of its start in 1900 as an alternative to the “side-hunt” which was itself a long tradition in many families warms many a birder’s heart. The annual Christmas Bird Count is a venerable tradition and this year’s will be the 113th.