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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. The festival includes a chance to check out the brand-new Hawaii Island Coast-to-Coast Birding Trail , which stretches from Kona to Hilo, as well as to hop on board a pelagic cruise.

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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

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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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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. I’d prefer something descriptive like Flamboyant , Orange-throated , or Fire-throated Warbler , but feel free to incorporate other evocative nicknames like fire-brand and torch bird.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. A selection of photographs, ranging from four to six per page, depict the bird in various postures and habitats and sometimes, but not always, in different plumages.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded. It is helpful to have a sample paper.