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Some of America?s Avian Treasures

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These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America. South Texas Birding & Nature.

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Spring Migration on South Padre Island, Texas

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There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it. One such experience is a bird grounding event, sometimes called a fallout. South Padre Island in south Texas is a popular destination to see some of these migrants.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Sure, there were Summer and Scarlet Tanagers and a few “good” warblers, but most of the migrants were sailing on those south winds over our heads to other parts of Texas. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. You just need to know where to look. Clapper Rail.

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Hummer Time

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At the top of those destinations is the stretch of Gulf Coast Texas barrier islands starting at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in the north, through Padre Island National Seashore, to South Padre Island near the country’s border. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. Salvin’s Prion. and seabirders.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. It borders the Hudson Bay to the north and four Great Lakes to the south, accessible by car and sometimes feet from the United States over bridges with names like Rainbow, Ambassador, and Seaway Skyway.

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Fruit For Birds

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Here’s an image I took of a Plain Chachalaca in Harlingen, Texas coming in for grapefruit originally intended for orioles. They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit. Grape jelly for orioles was an experiment too.

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