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Birding California: A Regional Primer

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the same few states always come to mind first…Alaska, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Other forest birds here include Sooty and Ruffed Grouse, Spotted and Barred Owls, Vaux’s Swift, Gray Jay, Pacific Wren, American Dipper, and Varied Thrush. When one thinks of taking a birdcation somewhere in the U.S., Convict Lake, CA.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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Another Nanhui trip also brought a Northern Boobook , which eBird nicely describes as a “slender brown owl with comically expressive golden eyes” While one would think that such a fierce-looking bird mainly lives off larger prey, this is not the case. It did not seem to bother the owl much though. Oh, the excitement.

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