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Backyard Birdfeeder Bragging Rights, a Great Adventure for a Great Twitch, and More: This Week in Birding News

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This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S.,

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. 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. The White-cheeked Partridge is classified as Near Threatened.

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Living in, on and around cactus

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Bear in mind, even the plants have to find ways to survive, so virtually every one of them has some form of thorny defense. When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family. The Gila Woodpecker is the first to break the fruit open, gets it fill and moves on.

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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. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

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Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? A guide that feels so right in my hands? And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The Quick Index of bird families (Albatrosses, Ani, Auklets, etc.)

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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That’s right – birds eating clay. The crowd of macaws is soon joined by parrots arriving as if on cue and bearing their colorfully named body parts: Yellow-crowned , Blue-headed , White-bellied , Orange-cheeked , and Mealy – followed by two species of parakeets – Dusky-headed and White-eyed. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Birder, Defined

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bought the rights to Noah Webster’s famous American Dictionary of the English Language , though it later lost exclusive rights to the “Webster” name.). Goose : “any of numerous large waterfowl (family Anatidae) that are intermediate between the swans and ducks and have long necks, feathered lores, and reticulate tarsi.”.

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