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and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

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The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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Georgia North America Alaska Hunters 206

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It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!). Don’t worry. There’s a lot in this book to digest and savor, even if you’re not a twitcher.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 261

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MARCH 16, 2011

I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Personally I’m very stubborn on this issue (not that I have anything against hunters)…but the minute they make a birding stamp, I’ll buy two! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in New York State! Why is that awesome?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 198

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MARCH 13, 2011

Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 145

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Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. of New Mexico Press, 2005). The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ. Topics such as habitat type and threats to bird survival are listed as general topics and with specific birds.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 233

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience. Wicked, right?

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 206

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MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

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All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 143

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These include Pennsylvania (George Armistead) and, the one we 10,000 Birds beat writers are really looking forward to, The ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York , by Corey Finger. Another great birding adventure book is The Jewel Hunter by Chris Gooddie (Princeton Univ. Books for Reading Pleasure . Press, 2012).

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 185

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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. Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

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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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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121