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

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The next volume in this three-book series is now out: Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus by Cin-Ty Lee, illustrated by Andrew Birch, and it is as informative and well-organized and lovely to look at as the Empid/Pewee volume. Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.

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Arctic Loon at Bonelli Park

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Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles. First of all, the species only occurs semi regularly in North America in a small patch of Alaska where it occasionally breeds.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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An old curator of birds at the Los Angeles County Museum encouraged me to visit the Alaskan territory as a place abundantly populated with these birds, because even then they were becoming rare and hard to obtain.” ” “What I found was that the falcon’s world moves about ten times faster than ours.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

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That’s 18 species in one book. The third thing to note about Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees is the care authors Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch have taken to present their identification expertise in a way that is understandable by birders of every level.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I was hoping to seek out during the one day I had available between business commitments. They had two world-class datasets on which to draw the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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And, because of a special family event (see below), I happened to be in Los Angeles County over the Thanksgiving holiday. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. ” [[link]. An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.

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