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Nine-legged Plover?

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Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or A Fascinating Blog Post Three Brave Boys Save Secretary Bird Black-backed Woodpecker to Get Protection in California? Hat-tip to Mike McDowell. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ), Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. And, the birds are awesome.

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My 2013 Birding Year in Review (With My Top Ten Birding Moments!)

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I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. It’s worth the click-through just to listen to the audio on the videos in the post.). a 17-Year Cicada.

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California Quail, The California State Bird: Now Forming Coveys

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The California Quail ( Callipepla californica ) is the California state bird, inhabiting scrub, broken chaparral and woodland edges primarily in California, Oregon, Washington and Baja California. The family stays very close to cover for several weeks, getting bolder as the young develop.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. They would all be wrong, as New Zealand has no official National Bird. Wicked, right?

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

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These Blasts From The Past Great Great Blue Heron Finding and Identifying a California Gnatcatcher Orange-headed Thrush Pectoral Sandpiper at Jones Beach Guan-emala About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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. … Tags: Lewiss Woodpecker , new york , woodpeckers • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts The other southern woodpecker Birding the East End of Long Island Another California Bird? Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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