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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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It seems there is not much research done specifically on Blue-naped Parrots – the only paper I could find featuring the species was from 1981 and had the somewhat unappealing title “A Preliminary Study Comparing the Pharmacokinetics of Ampicillin Given Orally and Intramuscularly to Psittacines: Amazon Parrots (Amazond spp.)

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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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I come down hard on Puerto Rico, ever since the scandal in which dogs were being thrown off bridges by an animal control company. They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, well, you get this picture.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Endangered. Extinction.

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Flock to Marion

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Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. and seabirders.

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The Blackbird that is a Meadowlark – Red-breasted Blackbird in Trinidad

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It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there.

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What Is An Ornithologist?

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As the company has been introducing me to the rest of the staff and clients, a description of my talents caught my attention. Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. In one document, I was referred to as a “self-taught ornithologist.”

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