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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. The photos are from Millennium Park.). many, many people are interested in them.

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Birds and music

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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. The bird family, however, is not. But an eagle it has to be, and this is a nice-looking species. I am sure you can easily imagine this as a PowerPoint slide.

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What is a Black Hawk?

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The Common Black Hawk earns its name by being common throughout at least part of its wide range, being black or very dark as adults, and being a hawk in the family Accipitridae. gundlachii ), currently embargoed by the United States, is widely considered a distinct species. The Cuban Black Hawk ( B. The Mangrove Black Hawk ( B.

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Arizona, or Central Mexico?

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All sorts of exotic and beautiful species may be seen. This would sound attractive even to me, except for one fact: almost all of those exotic and beautiful species are common down here in central Mexico. Southeastern Arizona is unusual, precisely because its species mix is as much Mexican as it is American.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity.

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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. Flower, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Christopher J. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week.

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What is a Cardinal?

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In all of North America, only one avian species serves as both the beloved mascot of seven states as well as the totem to two professional sports teams (and an infinity of amateur ones!) However, in their migrations from Chicago to St. The family Cardinalidae encompasses a plethora of New World passerines.

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