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What is the State Bird of Nevada?

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Though not officially adopted until 1967, the Nevada Federation of Women’s Clubs voted for the Mountain Bluebird all the way back in 1930 and 1931. Historically, Mountain Bluebirds nested in tree cavities created by woodpeckers, but now more commonly choose artificial nest boxes. million breeding birds.

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Red-crowned Parrots at Irvine Regional Park, Orange County, California

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Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. I know that the Acorn Woodpeckers were none too happy about the parrots being in the oak trees at Irvine Regional Park and were constantly chasing the parrots away from the trees that were loaded with acorns.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Extinct birds, such as Ivory-billed Woodpecker, are included. Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots! The groupings of the images on each plate can strike the eye as graceful (loons, warblers) or jumbled (banded plovers, woodpeckers).

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My Favorite Release

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Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. I picked up the woodpecker and all the way there he pounded on the hard plastic carrier – the whole two hours. “I

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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. The text has to be read; details are not laid out in bold headed, brief paragraphs as they are in the Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

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A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors. The Fulvous breasted Woodpecker to me looks like a very conventional woodpecker. ” Oh my, are we important. Yearning to look like an adult.

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

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The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage.

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