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Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015)

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There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting. But our ancestors weren’t always so lucky to appreciate birds the way we do. Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

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Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. But this also struck me in other ways.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books. The Brown Boobook is sedentary, though.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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.’ Not every species has a GV section, and the amount of description allocated in each section varies from a brief notation on color differences (most species) to the uncertainty of how voice variations relates to color morphs (Vermiculated Screech-Owl). In this specific case, I have to go with the latter.

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Poop Week: Wiping Up

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Our collective goal was to examine every area in which excrement impacts avifauna and their observation. Which groovy-necked bird suffers from such a colorful but unfortunate moniker? Poop From The Front End Of The Bird How does something cool related to owls suddenly become a little bit disgusting or maybe even cooler?

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from.

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