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The Juniper Titmouse Nesting Project

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The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. The featured image above is a Creative Commons (CC) photo from Rich Hoeg. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

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It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. 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. I’ve spent the last week in southwest Florida.

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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.”. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. million-year-old early human.

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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. Tags: baltimore oriole , half hardy , Terminology • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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

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If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I Jonas D’Abronzo.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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(The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families.