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Noudar Nature Park, Portugal

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I had the good fortune to be asked to represent one of the UK’s national birding magazines ‘Birdwatching’ on a press trip to Southern Portugal earlier this month. In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion.

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

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Rick Wright agrees. Personally, I find the lack of an apostrophe-s easy to adapt to in writing, but strange when I say it out loud. Range and Geographic Variation.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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In Birding magazine, ABA President Jeff Gordon argued that adding Hawaii would “bring an unjustly excluded community of birders into full membership in the ABA family.” Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere. The Puerto Rican Vireo is declining.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. It is the vision that counts!(To

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly. Lots to think about.

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