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Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Birding

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Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. The subtle white edging to the gape of this bird indicates it is near breeding time.

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Birds + Bikes

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Look in the middle, just over the trees: there’s a big flock of birds up there. I said, abandoning my bike and bushwhacking toward them. Birds crows wildlife rehabilitators' Same thing with the photo below. So: on a beautiful fall afternoon, my friend Ardal and I decided to go to for a bike ride.

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7 State Parks for Fall Colors and Birding

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Leaves and birds in the Appalachian Mountains. Strong populations of birds reside in the hardwood forests and dense understories in this north-eastern location of West Virginia. There are guides for historic buildings as well as birding tours. If you visit later in the year, join Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count.

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). The latest volume on the subject is Montgomery’s The Hawk’s Way: Encounters With Fierce Beauty.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. You like birds,” he said, giving me a winning smile. Birding apps? I gasped. “I

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2015)

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He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? 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.”. Feel free to vent!”. million-year-old early human.