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7 State Parks for Fall Colors and Birding

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Leaves and birds in the Appalachian Mountains. North Bend State Park, West Virginia. North Bend State Park, West Virginia. Strong populations of birds reside in the hardwood forests and dense understories in this north-eastern location of West Virginia. Table Rock State Park, South Carolina.

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Knowing your Cutlery Birds

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Here in the southern reaches of North America, we’re fortunate to have opportunities to view birds that are far more common far more south – like neotropics south – with some regularity. We spotted our quarry before the car even came to a stop, it’s nice when state birds are so forthcoming.

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The Vulturine Storks

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European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. … Birds extinction Extinction Week wood-warblers'

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Lost on the Space Coast

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There are a handful of sites in North America that can justifiably be considered must visits for birders. So it goes, but the bird itself, in theory if not in actuality this time, is one of those great southeast species that draws people to the region. everyone). Or at least I hoped so, I realized I was pushing my luck.

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