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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

However, instead of rushing out to buy a brand new pair of bins, it was recommended that she bought herself a pair of secondhand Zeiss Dialyt 10×40, then the binocular of choice of most serious birders. I was one of a small group of journalists, each of whom was presented with the latest Dialyt 10×40 inscribed with our initials.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

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. Tennessee Warblers may be fairly drab by the prismatic standards of this group, but they certainly get around. NAMED FOR PLACES. Well, no more!

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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

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The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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A Slacker’s Guide to Bird Photography (Part Two)

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No doubt other digital brands come with equivalent software. A Facebook group was recently formed here in Mexico, called ¿Cuál es esta ave? The photos I have held onto over the years can be divided chronologically into two groups. So, having covered those two points, here we go: Trim! What bird is this?). Stay (un)centered.

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Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake in 10 Pictures

10,000 Birds

As it turned out, I was the only travel writer of the group. A quick check of the Collins 2 (I think American birders know this book as the “Birds of Europe”, but here, some branding mastermind has interconnected the company’s name and the book title) revealed that we are facing two Siberian Greylag Geese (race rubrirostris ).

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Empid Mnemonics: There has to be a better way

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But the one group of birds that we North Americans can legitimately claim to puzzle over are the tyrant flycatchers, particularly the difficult genus Empidonax. We deserve a better brand of bird songs. Yet beginning birders are fed this stuff as if it’s birding lore. It’s time to break free! Birds birdsong empids'

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right.