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Harris’s Sparrow, Eh?

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This big, chunky sparrow is one of Canada’s few endemic breeders (Wikipedia says the only one, but I trust Cornell more.) Exotic and mysterious — its nest wasn’t documented for science until the 1930s — but still, a sparrow. So, let’s talk more about the Harris’s Sparrow.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. . This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Eaton, and John Kuerzi.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

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