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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. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The grand total is 817 species! SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies.

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Birds of the Northern Forest – An homage

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It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Livingston, and on the dust jacket was a drawing of three Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator ) standing on a cone-bearing tree. Until recently, it was considered to be the same species as the Eurasian three-toed Woodpecker (P. tridactylus).

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2022

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I guess I would therefore usually not include them in this post were it not for the information below. Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.” The species is listed as Vulnerable, with severe degradation of the wintering lake habitats in China cited as an important factor.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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The species name athertoni is derived from Lt. Unfortunately, there is not much literature on the species except for the inevitable analysis of the mitochondrial genome. As usual in China, there are some anonymous Leaf Warbler species – but who cares, apart from Bella of Alpinebirding ?

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