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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

This species is an example of a bird having an equal-opportunity type of English name (both male and female are olive-backed) … … while the Latin name “jugularis” (“of the throat”) seems to refer only to the male. In Singapore, Common Redshanks mostly drink Tiger Beer.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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These run the range from birds like Barnacle Goose and Little Egret, which are rare but do show up in North America every few years (actually, lately it’s been every year) to birds whose sightings in North America are so few that they’re legendary–Western Reef-Heron and Corn Crake are two examples. This is not unusual.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

Take Hawaii, for example. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. (Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ). If it makes you feel better, though—and you probably need some cheering up after that—the situation for birds isn’t completely bleak everywhere.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Writing is direct, to the point, and uses as little technical language as possible; a waterthrush’s supercilium, for example, is an “eyebrow strip.” There is a remarkable history behind the Peterson brand, and the elements that made it a major educational force in the early days of birding still apply.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans.

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