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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

” But the tanager brand is changing. These are neither sparrows, nor finches, but tanagers. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.” We’re learning we’ve got to expand our idea of what it means to be a tanager.

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Corporate Branding of Birds for Conservation: A Modest Proposal

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No brand recognition at all.” “So, for a relatively small contribution to habitat preservation, or captive breeding programs, or some minor climate change mitigation…” here a small covey of oil executives rustled and began to puff up, “really quite small, by your standards, you too could have a longspur.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

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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Highly recommended – Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide

10,000 Birds

When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes naturally. And a highly recommendable book it is, there is no doubt about it. The important characters successfully stand out in bold letters. Regarding maps, they tend to be on a smallish side.

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Those magnificent places down the Danube

10,000 Birds

Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. Beside several well-showing Red-backed Shrikes , the highlight was one uncommon Lesser Grey Shrike (highly localized ** , with only 700 to 1000 breeding pairs in Serbia). I like driving.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The two-page spread on Parts of a Bird provides diagrams for the topographical terms used in the Species Accounts, including hummingbird, shorebird, gull, passerine, and every feather on the upper wing of an adult Lark Sparrow. Black-capped Chickadee, and Rock Ptarmigan.