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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill! .* It has wings. It can fly.”

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

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million metric tons per year in the United States alone; and. (By Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both. He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. This is Mark’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. As I expected, there is a lot to talk about here. Small and other photographers, mostly, if not all, birders. Scope of Book. Mexico border. They’re all birds of North America!

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya.

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Superheroes and the Birds

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You see, everyone knows the bats, wolverines, spiders and cats get their turn as well known superheroes, but what about the birds? She took on the persona Songbird and joined the Thunderbolts, a group of villains trying to take over the world by pretending to be heroes. This is not comic heroism as you remember it.

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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

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Pafuri lies in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park and is described as “some of the most potentially productive birding territory in South Africa” on the SANParks website. ” (HBW). ” (HBW). A slightly more surprising threat for the vultures comes from elephants.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. As a group, yes, we are anti-hunting,” she said. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing.

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