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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Eurasian Blackbirds living in cities have learned to keep their cool, compared with rural birds. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches' Female Zebra Finches are one-male birds in the wild, but not so in captivity.

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Should Puerto Rico be Part of the ABA Area?

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The Department of Transportation has helped to reopen airports and the Department of Energy has assisted with getting power plants back online. The Department of Defense and Coast Guard are supporting the efforts with ships, helicopters, personnel, and supplies. This is all appropriate and necessary, as Puerto Ricans and U.S.

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Hunting the Mountain Witch

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A Jamaican Tody on Ecclesdown Road Ecclesdown Road is one of the best sites to see the declining and rare Jamaican Blackbird Crested Quail-doves are most active at dusk and dawn. Hotel Mocking Bird Hill is within a short drive and the hotel owners will gladly organize transport and a local guide.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. New Zealand was to be a British colony through and through, a little bit of England, Scotland and Wales moved across the world. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

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Secrets of the Swamps

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A boat ride into this swamp turns up usual suspects like Pied Water Tyrant and Yellow-hooded Blackbird , but also (and most excitingly) three species of kingfisher: Green, American Pygmy and Ringed Kingfisher. The Nariva Swamp is the largest wetland on Trinidad, giving to and taking from the relentless Atlantic Ocean on its eastern boundary.

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

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The capital is San Juan, an important center of Caribbean culture and transportation. And one can go birding on federal lands ( e.g., Cabo Rojo NWR ) and see ESA-listed endemic birds ( e.g., Yellow-shouldered Blackbird ), but not be in the ABA Area. Puerto Rico became a territory in 1898 and a commonwealth in 1952. Pierre et Miquelon.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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And even though transportation is so easy and inexpensive, prepare to walk a lot. 118 Eurasian (Chinese) Blackbird. You will be amazed at how easily you can access both the urban core and outlying islands and territories through the integrated system of subways, buses, minibuses, and ferries. So don’t be afraid! Do your research.

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