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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy. Next time, I’ll know why. Is the ship-assisted vagrant a ‘true’ vagrant? It’s not always easy reading.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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and Canada. Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. According to eBird , I have been an eBirder since December 23, 2009, so today is my 10th eBird anniversary. Virgin Islands ( St.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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Lee and Birch have co-authored field identification articles on birds that are not flycatchers, including dowitchers, loons, pipits, and orioles, for Birding and Texas Birds Annual. He is a co-illustrator of Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East (1996) and has illustrated many other magazines and articles.

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Birding the Battlefields

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Fort Davis National Historic Site, in west Texas, just north of Big Bend National Park, served as a crucial supply depot for the Confederate’s Second Texas Mounted Rifles before being retaken by Union troops in 1862. Both of these places, as you can imagine, had some great birds to see.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. The Sandhill Crane is no different than the Aleutian strain of Canada goose. Canada Geese and Crows can figure it out, so can Cranes.

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