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Nest Cam Welcomes Arctic Tern Babies to the World

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Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market on the world’s longest annual migration. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. Plus, we’re told, the brown bear cam features frequent cameos by Bald Eagles !).

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Birding the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland

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She contributes regularly to Ontario Nature , reviews books for Birding, and also blogs about her misadventures in bird identification while offering trenchant analysis of avian coiffures on her own blog Birds and Words. This is Julia’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Happy puffins.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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One of the really great things about living in the Arctic, and loving to watch and photograph birds, is that you can bird in the middle of the night if you so desire. I know you can bird in dark in New York and Newcastle, Weyburn and Walla Walla. I’m talking about full on, need sunglasses, no need for high ISO, birding.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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But then came the biggest obstacle of all… …would Daisy agree to a boat ride that had a bird as its goal? There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway. Once the salmon started heading upstream the eagles would disperse and go after them. And quite a view it was!

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. … Birding Extinction Week Great Auk' Good, I say. We could do it!

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Want to Join Me at Space Coast?

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The 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will be 20-25 January 2016 and I can’t wait! We’ll get through a variety of habitats and should build a pretty good list for a morning’s birding. Viera is great, full of good birds, and well worth visiting. So come on down to Florida in January!