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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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So without further ado, here’s what’s been going on the past few weeks in bird news. Researchers studying the Fork-tailed Drongo (like the one above spotted by Redgannet) found that these birds essentially “cry wolf” to steal the food of others. Who didn’t fare as badly as originally believed , thank goodness.)

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A Birder’s Guide to the Great American Outdoors Act

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Find your state via this link , and here are California , Texas , New York , and Florida.). The Great American Outdoors Act would also create a new $9.5 The Congressional Research Service (CRS) provides non-partisan research and analysis to members of Congress. billion fund ($1.9

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. Interestingly, in her work, the researcher found that the birds live in small groups dominated by a single male. Examples: California. New Jersey. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Connecticut.

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

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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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Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%). In other words, the researchers sought to determine attributes important to birders, and how those attributes rank relative to each other. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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A recent study of a multiyear, peer-reviewed research project, conducted in Texas, indicate dove hunters using shotshells loaded with lead pellets enjoy no advantage in effectiveness over those using shotshells firing non-toxic steel pellets of similar or slightly larger size. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S.

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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.”. Boston, New York. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __. By Donald Kroodsma.

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