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Red-legged Seriema

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What family is it from? After a very productive day higher on the mountain, Adilei capped out the day by locating a family of the birds which consisted of a mature pair with a grown offspring (probably). Red-legged Seriema, (with the only other member, the Black-legged Seriema) is placed in the family Cariamidae.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

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The White-naped Xenopsaris is a member of the Tityra family (Tityridae), a newish family of mostly South American birds carved from various oddball birds formerly lumped with the manakins, the tyrant-flycatchers and the cotingas. And here’s what I found for Argentina… And for Santa Fe. Nothing wrong with that.

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Birding Hokkaido

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Photographs taken on these travels and locally have been published in several field guides, including the Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding , Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight , and Birds of Argentina & Uruguay: A Field Guide.

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