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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Aisholpan will not be considered a true Eagle Hunter till she successfully hunts.

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Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger? Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger? These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds!

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Duck Migration

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And, sure enough, as the sun set birds came over in ones and twos and fours and fives, adding to what was already a pretty darn big flock of birds spread out on the West Pond. Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well.

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An Owl-Full Day

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Our missing it while it sat in that spot seemed impossible so rather than accept the title of blundering dunderheads we decided that we must have searched too early, while the owl was still hunting, before it had returned to its roost for the day. Now that is a great way to start a day!

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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In this post, we’ll share the most positive of the positives, at least for those who write for 10,000 Birds who decided to share. For a birder every year is a blank slate on which to write a new list. Of all the birds that make the list for a given year one of those birds must be the Best Bird of the Year.

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