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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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There are now multiple sites where people can contribute data on window strikes and bird deaths, including NYC Audubon’s dBird , FLAP’s Global Collision Bird Mapper , iNaturalist, and, on a social media level, the Facebook group Dead Birds 4 Science , run by the indefatigable Heidi Trudell. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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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. However, Cardinalis phoeniceus is a South American species.

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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. 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. Lucia, South Africa).

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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The hope and claim is that transferring this process to gull identification works more easily and just as accurately (at least for species) as an examination of plumage and molt patterns. Species Accounts. Gulls Simplified covers 25 species. From the Laughing Gull species account. These vary according to species.

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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. One species of interest is more common on Punhuato than in los Filtros: the Spotted Wren.

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Birds Worth The Trip

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I may still develop this idea, but I’ll advance the information that the only species on his list that I commonly see here are, in order of prevalence, the Yellow-rumped , Wilson’s , Townsend’s , Black-and-White , and MacGillivray’s Warblers. ” Well, the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.