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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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I rely on my library of cookbooks rather than Google for recipes, and prefer my cassettes, CDs, and LPs to my iTunes collection. Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” Birding citizen science Conservation eBird'

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A Brant With Bling

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When I got home later that day I downloaded my photos and reported the band number to the feds , and then put the photos on the New York Birders Facebook page to ask if anyone knew what the weird little widget attached to the goose was. And, upon closer examination, it had a weird little device attached to the color band.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is “Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Individually, all the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. I can find no reliable estimates of the numbers of birding-related apps that have been downloaded. * * * *. Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association.

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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

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The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection. It’s challenging reading.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Is a free digital download possible?) copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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