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Three Interesting Things

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But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. 84-85, though it’s hard to tell because there is no pagination in this section, simply plate numbers): And, here is a sample of the first two pages of the three-page Species Account for Bat Falcon (pp. Together, Clark and Schmitt make an excellent team.

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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. You mean a ham-fisted birder like me can actually be a real scientist?

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above).

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. Amphibian’s and Reptiles: 3.4

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The Little Big Year – Week 43: Last minute trip to Texas

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We made several stops along the way, hoping our eBird research would give us local hotspots that might turn up a few gems. What did find right off the bat, was an amazing group of people, all willing to help out in so many ways. I mean really, what 1200 miles (one way) if you might get another 30 birds or so?

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