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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. Enter the woodpecker.

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

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It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. I simply think it is confusing to the user to have them listed in the Table of Contents but not individually in the Introduction.

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Bring Pets Home

4 The Love Of Animals

The fund raising Web site also offers exclusive content for cat and dog owners which includes information on pet care and safety, information on animal shelters, as well blogs, groups and open forums. Shop ‘til you drop in support of animal shelters, then get together with friends to share stories, advice and even pictures – all online.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. Instead, we get references and quotes from Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink , the popular science book that takes bits and pieces from various research projects to make the case that we make choices without consciously thinking.

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

10,000 Birds

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” 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.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. Cats migrate out of the parks and live in areas where the researchers found the cats to be both fatter and less diseased.

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

10,000 Birds

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. ” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo.

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