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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

The species name “tukki” is not derived from a beloved but now extinct Eastern European car brand but from the Sumatran word for woodpecker. For example, the Northern Flicker (Reno, USA) is always interested in discussing the nutritional merits of different ant species.

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Accessibility Matters II:  Birdability Q&A

10,000 Birds

It’s usually pretty clear which places have prioritized accessibility in their trail design – we love seeing interpretive signs with tactile and/or audio components, for example. (Easy for who…?!). The most common access feature is benches! (So So many people benefit from benches in outdoor settings… me and my ‘dodgy’ knee included!)

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Boston Brewing Company: Cold Snap

10,000 Birds

This week’s beer is from the Boston Beer Company – a brand much better known by the name it shares with its flagship product, Sam Adams.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

Getting Close,” for example, contains a lot of material on the use of bird blinds—not the large blinds sometimes (but not often enough) found in nature preserves, but blinds you buy and construct by yourself. I found that there were surprises in each chapter. Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters.

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Shine a Light on a Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Purina ONE® beyOnd® brand dog and cat food and GOOD have teamed up to host the Shine a Light on a Shelter challenge and award a $10,000 grant to an animal shelter doing great work. Do you know of a shelter that is doing good work on behalf of homeless pets?

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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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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

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.