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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

It was Montagu who first realised that the “Ring-tail hawk” and the gray male Hen Harrier were the same species, and that the bird he called the Ash-coloured Falcon was a different species to the Hen Harrier, an impressive achievement at that time. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today.

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Birding Arizona–style

10,000 Birds

Pre-Internet, I got all my birding info from print magazines; and WildBird was my go-to back in the day. Up to 256 bird species, deer, black bears, foxes, big cats, Gila Monsters, and 16 species of bats call this area of southeastern Arizona home. ( Peregrine Falcon. Coronado National Forest. Santa Rita Mountains. Madera Canyon.

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