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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. This gentle bird frequents bird feeders and readily nests almost anywhere.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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

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Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds.

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A covey of Greys

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Conversely, many American hunters refer to the gray/grey bird as the Hun, a shortened version of Hungarian, for Hungary was the source of many of the birds introduced to the Americas. I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics. .”

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