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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

10,000 Birds

Data is needed to make estimates for the optimal size of the translocated group. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., The Millerbird source population on Nihoa was tiny and such populations tend to be subject to bottlenecks that limit genetic diversity.