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Birding According to ChatGPT, Part II

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I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. Here are the queries and the ChatGPT responses are below: What is birding? What is a “nemesis bird” in birding? What is a “big year” in birding?

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Memoirs are rare in the birding world.

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Rice Ain’t Necessarily Nice for Wintering Bobolinks

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We’ve all heard the myth that rice thrown at weddings will explode birds’ stomachs. Rice farmers may use pesticides, or other methods to prevent the birds from eating their crops, further hastening the decline of the species. Not true, according to Snopes.) Bobolink photo courtesy of R.M. Jensen/ The Condor.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Only, birders don’t require pieces of dead birds to satisfy their desires.