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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. This original backlit photo of a Grasshopper Sparrow came out much too dark.

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

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” But the tanager brand is changing. ” Bill shape and systematics For a long time, the colorful, diverse, and species-rich group of primarily New World birds called nine-primaried oscines (about 10 percent of all living bird species) were classified largely by the shapes and sizes of their bills.

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Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake in 10 Pictures

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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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Bleak Midwinter Update

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Just as we met a flock of American Tree Sparrows popped up – not exactly a rarity, but certainly a solid winter bird. A lone American Kestrel perched high above, watching the sparrows speculatively. The bathrooms here are among the best I’ve seen – brand new, well-maintained, and clean.

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Christmas Bird Counting in Queens

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So, who’s coming to participate in the Queens County Christmas Bird Count in 2015? We sure could use the help… Birding Christmas Bird Count'

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

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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.

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The Supremacy of the Booted Warbler

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And for comparison, here is the song of the Blackburnian Warbler, arguably one of the group’s most splendid representatives. Or do we follow the taxonomic approach to birding and name the wood-warblers according to their genetic relationships to other groups, e.g. as Sparrow-Buntings, or Tanager-Emberizids?