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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of February 2014)

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The Feral Pigeon has many virtues to admire, but who is going to brag about encountering one of those? I don’t want my Best Bird of the Weekend to be Red-breasted Merganser while I’m in Asia. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Birding best bird weekend'

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Big Years: towards a fair competition ?

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Now that the World Big Year record has been broken by Noah Stryker , with more than three months and much of Asia and Australia to go, I guess a blog post on Big Years is in order. And last but not least, the ABA list is constantly growing due to the inclusion of escapes and ferals with established, self-sustaining populations.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is where they got their name.

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

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In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.