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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

The only bird-related activity I can think of is looking at bird photos I took in Singapore in 2015, and adding some irrelevant comments to them. Presumably, birds living in Singapore do not understand German. I was just thinking that tailorbird might be a good brand name for a cheap line of men’s clothing.

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The Birds of Washington, DC

10,000 Birds

There are a lot of birds in Washington, DC. Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living avian species, or visitors can head to the Smithsonian museums for a dose of past and present bird lore from all over the world. In early June, I took note of each museum bird I spotted. An original John J.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

I came late to bird feeding, and when I was finally able to put out a “thistle” sock and a seed feeder (or two or six), I was amazed by the learning curve. There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. And conservation.

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The Lonely Dodo: A Cautionary Tale

10,000 Birds

To get this message out to the world, they recently partnered with the folks behind the Wallace and Gromit animations to produce a new video, The Lonely Dodo. The result is a charming yet bittersweet cartoon which depicts what happens when an animal is the last of its kind left on the planet. (It

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Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

10,000 Birds

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised.

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Trader Joe's Eggs NOT Humane

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As of this time, all Trader Joe's brand eggs come only from cage-free hens. Any conventional eggs sold in our stores are in a brand name carton, not under the Trader Joe's label. If, in fact, Trader Joe's deems debeaking as necessary, then this immediately reveals the high density of birds. But are they really free-range eggs?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

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