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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away. Yellow-headed Blackbird was another lifer for me, and omnipresent. The place was lousy with Swainson’s Hawks , and we may even have spotted a distant Golden Eagle. A Marsh Wren came out of hiding for us.

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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America: A Book Review by a Sound Challenged Birder

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Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. A special box shows the differences amongst hawk and eagle copulation sounds. The Index lists all sounds displayed in the Species Accounts, grouping similar sounds together. Woodpeckers, appropriately, get a whole page on drumming and tapping.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? to have and raise children. Any reason?

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Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

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In Cantebury, where there are moa there might be Haast’s Eagles. Our main targets will be the big three, three genera endemic to the group; the massive flightless Hawkins’ Rail , the smaller and odder Hutton’s Rail (perhaps related to the Snipe-rail), and the enigmatic Chatham Duck. Our tour ends on Norfolk Island.