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Crossley Giveaway Reminder

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These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence

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I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Thanks for visiting!

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! And my first Killdeer of year! Thanks for visiting!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

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A Question of Migration

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Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) They migrate because those with migratory adaptations who moved from region to region to follow seasonal changes in food supply or other resources had, ultimately, higher Darwinian fitness.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. It is a very interesting read, and as I stated in the post I wrote on my blog , part of the team that wrote the plan is the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, one of the states proposing a Sandhill Crane slaughter. Thanks for visiting!

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011)

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On the other hand, I quite enjoyed an array of Long-tailed Ducks at Irondequoit Bay, including one male in breeding plumage. Long-tailed Duck by Mike Bergin Tags: best bird , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Thanks for visiting!

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