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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

The bird is just chilling out, waiting for the urge to fly. The bird below is also waiting, but not to fly. One might assume this is a falconry bird, but it’s not. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of birds knows the efficiency and delicacy of their respiratory systems. Now imagine you have the lungs of a bird.

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Why Do I Keep a Neighborhood Bird List?

10,000 Birds

Each time, a small notebook tagged along with me, and I would note the bird species I spotted, then put it away. As we kept paddling, I continued, “It helps me remember when birds come and when they leave. It’s human nature: Once we think we know what we’re looking at, we mentally fill in the gaps and move on to the next thing.

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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds. As we walked, I noticed two unique birds on the power lines. Monk Parakeet.

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Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

10,000 Birds

It is also a good description of the birding in southernmost Florida. However, few realize how unique and how good the birding can be here. A cool climate on one side and wide expanses of water on the others creates isolation as many temperate land bird species seem unable to colonize areas south of Lake Okeechobee.

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

10,000 Birds

. “Where they stop and water and get some food before they continue their migration,” the voice continues, and, if you’re not a birder you could be excused from a sense of confusion–is this a film about migrant birds or migrant people? ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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A Cute Story of Sandhill Surrogacy

4 The Love Of Animals

Years of experience told the team that if a chick isn’t around other cranes during its early months, the possibility of imprinting on a human increases, making it difficult to return the chick to the wild when ready. The team came up with a unique solution: Pair the two birds together.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

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