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Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia

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and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. Wicked, right?

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Is the project of the very best field guides in the world dead?!?

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The most recent was the ninth one, “ Birds of Colombia ” in 2021. For species with more than one subspecies in the region, the separate resident/breeding ranges of the distinct subspecies are indicated on the map. The taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World.

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Tremendous Torrent Ducks

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On a recent filming trip to Colombia with Aderman (my notorious/nefarious videographer), Birding Tours Colombia and Richard Crossley, I was fortunate enough to see some of this death-wish behavior first-hand. Aderman was livered (as evidenced in the below video). Colombia is a land chock-full of avian treasures.

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Waxwings and their kin: Meet the bombycillids

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Here’s the only known video footage of that species: Kauai Oo. The excitement of this news, however, was tempered by the fact that all five species of this distinctive Hawaiian lineage are extinct, most having disappeared by the middle of the 20th century and the last, the Kauai Oo , flickering out forever in the mid-1980s.

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). You can see a video of some of that water-flinging behavior in this video.

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Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The.

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Share Your Thoughts « A First Christmas Bird Count Experience Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. As promised, one winner has been chosen at random from all entries that [.] Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right?

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