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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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a handful of times, only to realize how important it is to have a resource that will help birders differentiate amongst these very similar looking birds. Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a seven-page bird, partly because the account includes a vagrancy chart (another new feature). Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Three Interesting Things

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I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little things. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C.

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Big Years in 2013

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Follow his adventures at Greg and Birds. I’m not at all sure what his goal is other than seeing lots of birds but Canada is a big country so I bet he succeeds! Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program.

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The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

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The American Birding Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year and one aspect of its celebration was a reprint of the first issue of the publication now known as Birding. Thus, at that time, birding information was scarce and local, distributed, if at all, by individuals or rudimentary networks of birders.

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A Stick! A Bird! A Tree!–Books on Nature for Parents & Kids

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Here are three recent titles, one for the parents of very young children, one for primary school children and their parents, and one for residents of a specific geographic area–Los Angeles County. I Love Birds!: She’s written a series of nature activity books, and I Love Birds!: How many birds do you see?

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

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The second thing to note is that this is an excellent and courageous book that tackles a group of birds whose field identification has stumped the most skilled birders. ” This builds and expands on a classic series of articles by Bret Whitney and Kenn Kaufman that appeared Birding magazine between 1985 and 1987.* known-identity).”**