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What is a Cardinal?

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However, in their migrations from Chicago to St. The male bird’s scarlet plumage and pert crest was reminiscent enough of a Roman Catholic cardinal’s colored robes to earn it, its family, and its genus the name they all share. The family Cardinalidae encompasses a plethora of New World passerines.

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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Recently, an interdisciplinary group published a paper using eBird data in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. To address this gap, the researchers analyzed eBird (and iNaturalist and Flickr) data in Chicago to determine where Chicagoans observe birds. It has also been used by researchers from other fields, such as economists.

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Birds and music

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You can easily see that this blog post is trying to appeal to two very different target groups – birders and those who like independent/alternative music. Next, band names referring to individual birds or bird families. The Bowerbirds are an American independent-folk band as well as an Australian bird family.

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls). The text proper is divided into these sections: Profile, the must-read section; Status and Distribution, complete with range map; two to five sections describe plumage and other anatomical identification features, divided into age groups.

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Birding Morelia

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One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris. And go ahead, bring the family. Come bird Morelia.

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