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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of August 2018)

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The end of August, which often seems synonymous with the end of summer, evokes an entire spectrum of emotion, from sweet to bitter. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Birders, however, approach that wistful moment with more excitement than, say, school children. How about you?

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Raptor ID Happy Hour with Crossley & Sullivan – Friday 6:00pm

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that kicked off the Raptor Blog Tour celebrating the book’s publication. So, bring your own spirits, emotional and liquid, and be a part of this unique web event! Crossley and Sullivan are the co-authors of The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors , published this week by Princeton University Press. and this live happy hour web event.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of October 2012?

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Weekends carry more emotional heft in most of our personal planners, probably because we save all of our fun for Friday through Sunday. Right now, I’m working 24-7 to keep hackers from tearing down this blog! Right now, I’m working 24-7 to keep hackers from tearing down this blog! Does that count as work or play?

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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One nice little story for my blog post lost. Other useful information in the Wikipedia article includes the factoid that it shows very rapid ingestion rates, taking on average 6 seconds for the prey to reach the stomach after capture (motto of this blog: We read Wikipedia for you so you do not have to). Back to birds.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Isn’t every other blog post or tweet these days about how people are learning to bird? Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. Not an enticing subject, I think. Rogers can.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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A Little Forktail auditioned for a prominent role in a future blog post “Cartoon Birds – The Sequel” “Were there Leaf Warblers as well”, you ask? This female Grey Bushchat reminds me of a female secretary in a Cary Grant movie – if such a role exists. Yes, there were. ” Definitely not.

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Review of The Bluebird Effect by Julie Zickefoose

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I like Julie Zickefoose’s art , her writing , her blog , her blog posts here on 10,000 Birds , and, of course, I like birds. So a book about birds by Julie Zickefoose, featuring her writing and art, some of which has been featured in different forms on her blog, is guaranteed to be a hit with me. How could it not be?