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Third time lucky for Arabian Babbler

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This is the classic signature that I had been hoping for and I spent the best part of 45 minutes watching a small group interacting. Arabian Babblers live in co-operative groups usually consisting of a breeding pair and their offspring. The offspring remain and help out raising subsequent broods.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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My Favorite Release

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Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. I’ve been locked in a chicken coop once or twice, too. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young. Together these family groups form a clan and the clans defend this territory from other neighboring clans.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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Filling the Gap Left By DeBooy’s Rail

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By far the most commonly seen bird on most of the islands in the region – and the only one every islander can identify on call – is Gallus gallus (the feral chicken). It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos. There are any number of concerns one could raise.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. Though admittedly, I only show this photo to quote the line of a Gary Larson cartoon : “The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”

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