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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

They looked out their windows and across their patios and up from their apartment terraces and saw–birds. This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives.

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The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion: A Review and a Little More

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The first step was to download The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion files, which are in MP3 format, from the Macaulay Library website to the iTunes program on my computer. The Companion files should be downloadable to other mobile devices, just be aware that the focus here is on using iTunes.

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January Birding – Getting the Year List Going

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I even had a plan to make sure that my first bird of the year would be a good one. Get to my early morning birding destination while it was still dark, sit in the car with the radio on to prevent the inadvertent identification of a run-of-the-mill bird by voice, and wait for a Short-eared Owl to fly past on the hunt.

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Playback of Bird Calls Benefits Some Birds

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The use of digital devices to attract birds is getting more and more attention. It’s been brewing on birding listservs for years. The bottom line is that we do not have enough information or research to give a definitive answer as to whether to not it’s harmful to birds. But sometimes, using calls can help birds.

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Where to Watch Birds in the Iron Gates

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Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! It is possible to reach it on the Friday afternoon, sleep there and go birding at the crack of dawn on Saturday. Well, do you really? The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either. Am I complaining about it?

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the likelihood of actually seeing the creatures in those guides is remote. It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

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