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It’s On: The Rusty Blackbird Migration Blitz!

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Specifically, the plight of the Rusty Blackbird , which has experienced the sharpest rate of decline among North American landbirds, according to the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group (IRBWG), and has a conservation status of Vulnerable. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and others).

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.).

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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

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Still, the tip was all I needed to jump online and do some quick research (and all praises to the internet for making such things possible!) Red-winged Blackbirds and Starlings around the Arch were panting and flocking to the water features like Saharan castaways. Louis without putting in a sporting effort to get this one.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.”

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German Birding Blitz

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From the time he can remember, every camping, hiking, or simple trip outside was focused on finding wildlife with herps, mammals, birds and native fish as his primary interests. Your author watching a Hawfinch instead of the castle Now it was time to research the trip. First hand birder knowledge of Germany, and in English!

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere.

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Rambling

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Not only was it pleasure, it was now that most dignified of activities, Research. Sure, migration was in evidence — both Kinglet species present, Hermit Thrushes everywhere, White-throated Sparrows tuning up their songs in such abundance that they provided an ongoing soundtrack, American Robins and assorted blackbirds on the move.

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