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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2014)

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Like the fabled honey badger, grackles don’t care. We weary winter warriors need some serious respite. Shouldn’t someone be sending St. Bernards with brandy barrels on their collars to help us get through this? The snow and cold hardly seem to faze them.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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Why not the stoat family or the badger family?) The same goes for the badger, an animal that has become much more numerous and widespread in Britain in the last 50 years. Sightings of squashed badgers by the side of the road are much more common than seeing live individuals, unless you make the effort to watch a sett.

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Biofuel: Now With More Birds

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That Dickcissel you see atop this post was not photographed in the Badger State, but rather by Corey in Orange County, NY.). The results suggest that grasslands, often populated by diverse species of grass as well as wildflowers, tend to support more varieties of birds, including declining species like Dickcissels.

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Sepilok: Worth a Second Look

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We heard, but didn’t see, a Brown Wood-ow l, and best of all a massive cat-sized Red Giant Flying Squirrel and a rabbit-sized Sunda Stink-badger. A pair of mating vipers. Sleeping Black-headed Pitta!

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The Summer Solstice Safari

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A few kilometres on, one European Badger hates swimming over the river, but prefers to walk across the bridge in full floodlights. Not realising that it was in any sort of danger, it stops by the roadside, merely a metre from the car. Farewell, sweet playfellow.”. Birding Europe Serbia wetlands'

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away. The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.) In the winters the snow lies heavy and researchers travel in and out by small plane.

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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

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Even though they naturally nest in burrows mainly created by ground squirrels, badgers and prairie dogs, Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) also use artificial burrows. I may be stretching it here but I am going to include my all time favorite raptor here as a cavity nesting bird.