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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J. banding station, 2020.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. Surprisingly, they only stay on the breeding grounds for about 5 weeks. As scientists have found.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). This species might indeed merit a bit more research – the only paper I found on its breeding looked at only 7 nests (of which 3 failed).

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The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

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Overall, the bark butter issue is a hiccup in what is an excellent, fun-to-read yet pragmatic, beautiful-to-look-at yet educational, up-to-date book about bird feeding.

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

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Broadly speaking, I work in the field of education and communication between nature conservation and other stakeholders. reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). . - do you have another job besides the Crossbill Guides?

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