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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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The chapter titles of Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds represent both ends of the spectrum: “A World Full of Poisons,” “Malaria,” “Forest Intruders,” “Lead Shock,” “Shot.” Conservation. It’s not easy.

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Kamikaze Pigeons and a War to Extinction

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Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. And so on… not much of a birding day, heh? One more Feral Pigeon. I am inside the city of Belgrade, checking the theoretically possible Peregrine Falcon site. One Feral Pigeon. Yet, not a trace of a falcon. A Hooded Crow. One more Hooded Crow. A Great Tit.

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Help me Choose the Bird Specialties of Belgrade

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Yes there are birding sites and there are birds – but hardly much info about them (beside Fat Birder ). Local birding sites are well known – among local birders. Nevertheless, describing where to bird is easy. And so, which dozen or so birds to choose as the Belgrade specialties? Black Stork – spring/summer.

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Fancy Pigeon Blues

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Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. Unnatural selection indeed: None of these are traits that particularly recommend themselves in a wild bird. As I have pointed out before , we owe the much-maligned sky rat a debt of gratitude. Courting, mating.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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I was birding one of my favorite places yesterday, Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Palm Beach County, Florida, and, as generally happens, people were asking me about the birds they were admiring. Small), it provides a friendly and authoritative way for people interested in the birds around them to learn more quickly and easily.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. Very stupid thing to do.

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Migration is Dangerous

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When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can winter and hopefully survive in order to head back north and breed. Migration is the single most dangerous thing that birds do and many don’t survive as Greg pointed out in his recent post.