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Creating habitat

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My first experience was an easy one: I found a Prickly Pear cactus growing on the roof, and I left it there. It now bears lots of fruit for Blue Mockingbirds and Curve-billed Thrashers. The surrounding area (about which I wrote in my last article) is still relatively wild; You can see what the area is like in the header photo.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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And sun bears. The Jewel Hunter is heavily laced with Gooddie’s particular brand of broad ironic humor, and I did enjoy that, but I would have traded about 10 percent for a little more insight into the unexpected outcomes of his experience. All photographs used in this article are courtesy of Chris Gooddie. And mosquitos.

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Draai Laag Brewing Company: Haviken

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As far as I can tell from toggling back and forth between the English and Dutch language versions of Wikipedia’s article on Accipiter gentilis , “havik” is the Dutch name for the Northern Goshawk , making “haviken” the plural, I believe.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. Birds of different species gather in bird waves to improve foraging efficiency (the insect escaping one bird will most likely be caught by another bird of the wave) and increase protection against predators.

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