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

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. “We have the ability to fix it, but we still need the collective will” (p. It’s not a bad idea.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths gives us another opportunity to get to know Cochran, and Heisman’s visit to his Illinois house in 2021 (during the Pandemic, so everyone was masked) gives us a final, cheery portrait of a man who embraced birds and adventure. He died August 2022 , and the book is dedicated to him.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. In Abraham Lincoln’s day, Prairie Chickens were an incredibly abundant part of the Illinois prairie landscape. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. As he traveled the court circuit, he probably flushed hundreds each day from the roadsides.

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Large-billed Terns at the Trincity Sewage Ponds

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One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds check out 10,000 Clicks , our huge (and growing) collection of galleries! ….

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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

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Ridgway, born in 1850 in Mr. Carmel, Illinois, was a boy many of us would recognize; all he wanted to do was bird. The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. And, draw birds. And, identify the birds he saw and drew.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The publishers start the field guide with a strongly worded warning, the authors are a bit more lenient but warn to only eat mushrooms collected and identified with a professional. Identification of all mushroom species entails proper collection, detailed in the Introduction. of Illinois News Bureau, Nov. 28, 2018, [link].