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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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That’s because this fascinating part-Caribbean, part-south American country holds well over 800 species of avifauna making it without doubt one of my top three countries in all of the continent to visit. Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see.

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Grassy Green Space in the Central Valley- Trash Habitat or Prime Real Estate for Oddball Birds?

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A few spots manage to persist and welcome them in this human-dominated landscape. Some call them trash, tours might not visit, but they can host more than the expected and common species. Some such vegetated spots can also attract oddball birds, species that wander to find a home in urban circumstances.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well.

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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

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I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.

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California’s Autumn Seas

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The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. And besides, it’s nice to see something that isn’t the same 12 (now 13) species of seabird (plus Molly Meep Meep, a Black Brant ) There may not be as many as in October, but they are there, and they can be cool.

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. million-year-old early human.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. As Kaufman shows, however, to birds and bats, they can be death machines. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine.

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