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Hornbills of Sabah

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The part of the paper available online describes a video in which “the hornbill pair was seen side by side, observing the swiftlets movements entering and/or exiting while being about a foot away from the square entrance of the roof. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.

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

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The Marvelous Spatuletail as it appears in a video about The Glitter in the Green. 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. link] © 2021 Jon Dunn.

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Birdwatching Laguna de los Pozuelos – Trip Report

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It was declared a National Park (Monumento Natural) in 1981 to protect the nesting of up to 25,000 flamingos and many other water-foul and birds that depend on this fragile ecosystem, the Puna. A heard of Lesser Rheas cross the road in front of us giving us a great opportunity to do some photography and videos of these great birds!

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Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

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Let’s watch this video of a chickadee on a suet cage feeder: Note how that chickadee could access that suet cage from any side and chose to hang upside down? If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. You can also avoid them at your suet feeder too.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Burroughs says what he means and you can tell that he really means it. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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Half Hardy

10,000 Birds

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds. Wicked, right?