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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of February 2021)

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Not only have we completed Birding Tourism February , but we’ve also collectively made it through what is usually one of the least exciting birding months of the calendar year. Congratulations! The tail-end of winter delivered a bird I definitely didn’t expect in Rochester.

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Pet Paradise Resort to donate ALL pet hair clippings

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May 5th, 2010) Pet Paradise Resort , an upscale pet boarding, daycare and grooming resort, will start collecting and donating pet hair clippings from all 13 of their resort locations to help with the oil spill cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., www.petparadiseresort.com.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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The spoonbills are a collection of six species from around the world whose facial accouterments have reached their terrifying bizarre zenith. Early Morning Bird Walk – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder. Southern Bald Ibis , photo by Adam Riley. Glossy Ibis , Plegadis falcinellus. Sacred Ibis , Threskiornis aethiopicus.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888, the first person to do so.

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Escape to the Sounds

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This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. Lochmara Bay with Queen Charlotte Sound in the background.