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My Year in Birding 2012

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May – Migration’s Peak and Breeding Begins. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. Whether it was hawks , terns , seabirds , wood-warblers , shorebirds , geese , falcons , finches , or songbirds and woodpeckers I was there with my camera.

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Birding Roebuck Plains from the highway

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There are excellent birding opportunities along the highway throughout the year and the area still remains flooded from the rains over our Wet Season and it has been a breeding site for several species of birds. There were also families of Red-kneed Dotterels and Masked Lapwings. Glossy Ibis and Black-winged Stilt.

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Birder, Defined

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Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Is it really “found on” Laysan and adjacent islands? But I’m no lexicographer.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America & Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America: A Field Guide Review

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He became the social media hit of the day: “A Peregrine Falcon in Forest Hills!” ” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons. And, of course, there have been many, MANY changes in how species are organized taxonomically, in terms of genera, family, and order.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters. Each family chapter begins with a brief, bold-printed description of the common traits of the species in the family and an enumeration of the number of species worldwide and the number of species in North America.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree. Donna). ==.

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Road birding in New Zealand

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Easily separated from the New Zealand Falcon by its size and wing shape, and the fact you rarely see falcons while driving. This New Zealand endemic, more than any other, has benefited from the clearing of forest and pairs are commonly seen everywhere you go in New Zealand, often with their large families in tow.