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Nest Cam Welcomes Arctic Tern Babies to the World

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Some of those once-popular breeding spots now produce no chicks at all. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. For example, over the past decade, the population in the Gulf of Maine has dropped by 40 percent. Photos courtesy of explore.org/projectpuffin and Audubon.

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Birding – While Camping – North Lake State Park, Greene County, New York

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And one that I have written about before when I was pleased to find Blackburnian Warblers like the one above breeding.). We spent our evenings cooking, playing cards, enjoying adult beverages, and listening to Barred Owls duets. You’ll remember Javi from whale-watching. In other words, it is an awesome place.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. Longer story short, I didn’t find them.

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Birding Santa Cruz Island

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At the very northern end of their breeding range in the Channel Islands, they are strictly a Californian bird as far as the U.S. Like several species, breeding Peregrines were extirpated during the height of the DDT era but have reclaimed their island domain in more recent years. is concerned.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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1) Dusky Eagle-Owl. But the best was when we were gathering at the gatehouse to leave (many of us still taking Taj selfies) and a sister birder casually asked if I’d seen the Dusky Eagle-Owl. Finally, deciding that a duck that required 250 acres of land to breed probably did not welcome intruders, we tiptoed out of the swamp.

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