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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. It included surveys of nocturnal and marsh birds, and a point count survey of songbirds.

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So proud!

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But it has paid dividends with as many as a dozen bird species breeding or attempting to breed in my overgrown wasteland. As it waited for a parent to return with some food, it picked through the leaf litter to see if it could find something for itself. appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Two chicks!

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Singapore’s Red Junglefowl

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Red Junglefowl are under threat in Singapore due to habitat loss and inter-breeding, but we observed them most days on our hiking trips around the island and also on Pulau Ubin. It appears that the Red Junglefowl had been breeding this year around February, because we encountered many a family of them rustling around in the leaves in March.

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May Migration in Queens

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My spring has been pretty amazing so far with 146 species spotted since April 1 and Cerulean , Worm-eating , and Yellow-throated Warblers and a host of other species spotted before May even arrived, but the first couple of days in May have been even better. Queens, New York, May 2009 May is the month of migration in North America.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes , endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked or Red-headed , restricted to Lower Guinea forests of Central Africa. Gray-necked or Red-headed Picathartes in Korup National Park, Cameroon.

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Bunny Love

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Apparently the lack of birds and the abundance of cold has led to him thinking that writing a blog post about bunnies is an acceptable topic for Bird Love Week. that we would just let him carry on so we can see what his frozen, bird-deprived mind will come up with next.

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Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan

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The website gives you an idea of the birds you can hope to encounter and there have been ongoing studies taking place since 1986. We also had Eastern Whipbirds hopping along the edge of the road tossing the leaf litter about in search of food. There are 70 species that are known to breed in the park. Bell Miner.

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