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The Importance of Citizen Science in Mexico

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Birding in Mexico is not like birding in the United States… especially when it comes to interpreting unusual sightings. Quite a bit of birding has been done here since your publication in 1995!). I have written about this before, and I’ll probably write about it again.

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Harris’s Sparrow, Eh?

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This big, chunky sparrow is one of Canada’s few endemic breeders (Wikipedia says the only one, but I trust Cornell more.) It occupies a strange space where ecology and birding do not precisely overlap — not rare, but rare for most of us to see. Unlike all other U.S. Zonotrichias , the Harris’s eschews the coasts.

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