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Beginning a Birding Blog

10,000 Birds

Well, although I am hard at work being the leading world birder, I’ve somehow had the time to become an old hand at this blogging stuff as well. Among the things that more and more birders have mentioned to me over the years is their urge to start their own birding blog, but they just don’t know how to go about it.

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DNA Bar Codes Could Help Identify Illegal Bush Meat

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This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species. One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather.

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A Bird Sings in Camden

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As cheesy and trite as it sounds and as cheesy and trite as the title of this blog post is it gave me a bit of hope for the fine people of Camden and, by extension, the downtrodden everywhere. Those clear tones ringing from the top of a scraggly bush on a broken down block in a broken down city cheered me.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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And, that increased bird tourism and sales of this guide will increase interest in and support of projects aimed at protecting nesting habitat, empowering indigenous communities to work as conservation allies, raise awareness of the dangers of Macaw trafficking, and continuing ornithological research on threatened species.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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Alison Vilag’s “Extralimital” started out as an exceptional personal blog post about spotting a Common Swift while guiding birders on St. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.