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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of January 2016)

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Corey had a host of birds to choose from as his Best Bird of the Weekend as he spent Friday morning birding at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County, California. He didn’t see them do a courtship dance but their elegance was more than enough to leave him happy about the experience.

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover.

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The Traveling Birder

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Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Ding Darling NWR, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Big Cypress National Preserve, Loxahatchee NWR, and Everglades National Park. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.). Geography is destiny.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder.

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The Great Animal Orchestra

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After moving to California to audit music courses in electronic music at Mills College in the mid-1960s, he met Paul Beaver and the two of them began performing as Beaver and Krause, putting out five albums of their own and performing sound effects for scores of feature films.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The Service also proposes expanding hunting and sport fishing on the following refuges: California.

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

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The cows are walking around green fields, similar to those in the criminally misleading California cows commercials. But now I think about all of that being done to my daughter and I must say the disgust I experience at the notion that a family farm is somehow a wholesome place is a bit overwhelming.

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