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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept. Take birds.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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To a layperson, this means: (1) relatively accessible introduction to the topic that includes useful citations to the literature; (2) soul-deadening hyper-detailed description of the way the research was conducted, often down the the brand of reagents; (3) exhaustive accounting of the resulting data; (4) relatively accessible discussion of the results, (..)