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Young Thrushes

10,000 Birds

Admittedly this has never crossed my mind as being remotely interesting, young birds are generally awkward things, not yet fitting into the sleek and streamlined expectation of the dictionary definition of “bird” Furthermore, thrushes are often underappreciated creatures on their own. Wise creatures.

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My Favorite Mexican Birdsongs

10,000 Birds

Wood-Wrens, which like to live close to the ground in deep brush, definitely follow this rule; they are not at all colorful, but their song sure does ring. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species. The site is much-degraded now.)

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Sneeze Prone? Top 5 Dogs for Allergy Suffers

4 The Love Of Animals

It was bit of a traumatic experience for me and I vowed to never own an animal again. That said, dander can be found on all breeds, long-haired and short haired ones too. And you can definitely invest in an excellent vacuum cleaner to remove dander and hair from the carpet. You can add a purifier to remove the dander in the air.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

10,000 Birds

Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. The first snipe I ever saw was on Tobago, a definite Wilson’s Snipe.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Ring-billed Gull - yes indeed.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. Definitely one of the highlights of my birding career! Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. I wrote about the experience here.

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