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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2016)

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While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. It’s tough to beat calling red-shoulders interrupting the kickball game with the kids! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

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Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on. I daresay Fred wanted to do the hike more than we did but being kids before the digital age, we were always game for outdoor adventures. That way, you can at least know where the cool chickens are hanging out, at least know where to carefully watch for them.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? It’s not quite Tippi Hedren–worthy, but birds swarming your living room is probably fair game for some NSFW language. Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Have you ever seen two Hammerkop pretending to be bunk beds? Now you have.

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Crested Firebacks

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The exceptions are, of course, down to people, who, finding their own phansianids so unspeakably awful, introduced pheasants in order to improve the general quality of their game birds. Oh, and I guess there is a peacock in the Congo, but that bird is so utterly impossible to find it barely counts as an exception.

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His Regal Grumpiness

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The bird usually turns out to be a hawk, vulture, exotic chicken, or sometimes a pigeon. Further investigation revealed that 30 years ago, the Pennsylvania Game Commission had brought breeding eagles down from Canada to start a Bald Eagle re-introduction program, hoping to bolster the population ravaged by DDT.

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Birding Across Queens

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After watching the Killdeer playing Killdeer games in the field for awhile I moved on, ever eastward, until I came upon what was undoubtedly the highlight of my birding day. It didn’t take long, however, for me to realize the reason she was clucking like a chicken.

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