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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

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Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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The book is designed with quick searching and researching in mind, with colored blocks indicating bird family in upper right and left corners, common bird names in large, bold print, and a highly readable font. Lengthy captions point out key identification features, mostly plumage-based, sometimes including behavior, size, and structure.

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

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The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.), They wrote books and published research. and historical status as described in specific ornithological writings by John Bull, Allen Cruickshank, Ludlow Griscom, E. Eaton, and John Kuerzi.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. YourBirdOasis.com Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:22 am So polygynandry really is rare, but I can’t believe I forgot about Acorn Woodpecker!

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Birding Wuyuan, China

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This Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker in particular is a species I would like to get much better photos of. But then, I am not a cooperative breeder either (nor a non-cooperative one, should this term exist). While the female is less hidden, sadly, it is also less attractive. Such a cute bird deserves a better representation.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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In my case, I had one easy and three more difficult ( Syrian Woodpecker , Imperial Eagle , Great Bustard and Saker Falcon ). research papers). Thanks to my research on eBird, I was expecting to find them there, but it was still a great surprise to see so many and hear them so well! Search for my target species (i.e.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers? Sepilok is a good place to see a number of woodpecker species. I think they just got what they deserved.