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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. She crafts her prose with a visual immediacy that bring you directly into her experience.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” And summary and discussion of recent research on how birds have changed the frequency and pitch of their songs in response to human noise and the possible consequences of those changes (again, we know that we don’t know).

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

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From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. How's thousands, even millions more, in damage to the researchers property and your school sound? Now this war has two sides,"

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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After some hours of recording in northern California, and then, painstaking analysis and listening, he determined the number to be 37, at which point he, palpably exultant, announces to the reader: “a decades-long quest fulfilled.”. He had long wondered, Kroodsma says, how many songs, exactly, the Canyon wren has in his repertoire.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana.

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Birds In a Changing Climate: A Primer

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I doubt we have to worry about Herring Gulls , Ruby-throated Hummingbirds or California Towhees going extinct, though their abundance and distribution will surely shift in time. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. It’s that simple.