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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. The festival includes a chance to check out the brand-new Hawaii Island Coast-to-Coast Birding Trail , which stretches from Kona to Hilo, as well as to hop on board a pelagic cruise.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised. NAMED FOR PEOPLE. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. In 416 pages, 1800 illustrations and over 775 distribution maps covering regularly occurring species, “Birds of Malaysia” depicts all 847 species recorded in Malaysia and Singapore to date.

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I Love eBird and You Should Too!

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As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. Part of the prize was a brand new pair of Zeiss Conquests, which I was more than happy to try out this weekend. It’s a simple but amazing idea.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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For example, fancy words will be used where normal words might seem appropriate: birds of the same species are “conspecifics” (and they will never, ever “flock together”). Detailed knowledge of the genetic diversity in this species will help inform the effort by analyzing genetic variation in the source population.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. Taken individually, sourness and bitterness can be essential flavor components in beer, but throughout history, they’ve wisely kept apart. Well, until now.