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Beats the Beltway: a review of Bruce Beehler’s book “Natural Encounters”

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In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories.

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2014-2015 Winter Finch Forecast

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East of Ontario cone crops are generally poor in the Atlantic Provinces, New York State, New Hampshire and other northern New England States. When Purple Finches leave Ontario in October and November, they return in mid-April to mid-May to breed. At feeders purples prefer sunflower seeds. HOARY REDPOLL.

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Winter Finch Forecast for 2012-2013

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The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable. Red Crossbill RED CROSSBILL : Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. Major southward irruptions occur when cone crops fail across most of North America. Highest breeding densities are found in areas with spruce budworm outbreaks.

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Birds of Prey of the East & Birds of Prey of the West: Review of Two Field Guides

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These guides are sequels, updates, and complements to Wheeler’s previous classic books, Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (PUP, 2003), now out-of-print and fetching prices in three figures on used-book sites. Hawks of North America, 2nd ed. Mississippi Kite, Birds of Prey of the East.

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A Brief Interview with Greg Miller

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Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds. Washington in New Hampshire in July. Will anyone ever break Sandy Komito’s record of 745 birds in North America area in one year?