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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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Feral Cats in American Cities

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If left unchecked, free-roaming cats will breed and their populations increase at locations where they find suitable shelter and food, resulting in environmental/property damage, and public nuisance. In Copperas Cove, Texas. There is a petition to reverse the anti-feral cat policy.

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AOU to leave Mexican Duck in limbo

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The Mexican Duck, as its name suggests, is native to Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States, and unlike the Mallard, the Mexican Duck does not have a showy male breeding plumage; both sexes are brown throughout the year. © David J.

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