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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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Analysis : I have never seen a Kirtland’s Warbler, but this is consistent with the research I have done to fix that problem. Analysis : I haven’t actually done this and cannot confirm some of the details, but my research suggests that this would be the best plan. Grade: A. # # # Query: What are 5 good birding jokes?

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What Is An Ornithologist?

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Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. Remember the whole Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker search and how you literally had to apply for a volunteer position to pay your own way down to Arkansas for 2 weeks to try and look for that bird?

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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

10,000 Birds

The Southeastern guide goes a bit more west, to eastern Oklahoma and Texas, so its northern borders lie at the north boundaries of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat.

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Collaborative List – May 2018

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The collaborative profile has been boosted by 2 new American states, adding Tennessee and Arkansas to the coloured patches across the map of the USA. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).

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