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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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Fish & Wildlife Service). Currently extinct in the wild , the species is the subject of an intensive breeding program in captivity, and hopes are high to release some birds back into their native Hawaiian habitat later this year. And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept.

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

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Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S.

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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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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

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Highly recommended – Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide

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When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes naturally. Andy Swash, co-founder and managing director of WILDGuides, is an ecologist and well-known wildlife photographer and author. And a highly recommendable book it is, there is no doubt about it.

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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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“Valley of the Wild Geese”: Glengoyne 15 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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One of these wintertime visitants is the “Greenland” Greater White-fronted Goose ( Anser albifrons flavirostris ), a subspecies of the Greater White-fronted Goose that breeds in western Greenland and which has experienced drastic population declines in the last half-century.

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