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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu

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It is not quite clear why they do this as it apparently does not affect breeding success. They have written a paper on the “Feasibility of counting breeding Pied Avocets and Black-winged Stilts using drones” It seems to work, actually – though about 20 percent of breeding pairs are being missed by drone surveys.

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Nest Cam Welcomes Arctic Tern Babies to the World

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For example, over the past decade, the population in the Gulf of Maine has dropped by 40 percent. Some of those once-popular breeding spots now produce no chicks at all. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. Photos courtesy of explore.org/projectpuffin and Audubon.

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The Golden-cheeked Warbler and Conservation Banks

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The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. For example, a developer building a subdivision will likely harm warbler habitat even though that is not the goal of the development.

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. It’s not just for the birds.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. This is not unusual.