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Collective Arts Brewing: All Together IPA

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But I figured I’d atone for my current dereliction by briefly highlighting a new bird-themed beer made by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario to support the hospitality industry during the worldwide public health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The beer is a New England-style IPA at 6.6%

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. How it raised its chicks? Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food?

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study. How it raised its chicks?

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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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Carman have organized a Birdathon to raise funds for the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow project. This year, they hope to raise funds to: Purchase more telemetry equipment and transmitters with a solar panel. They will be collected until June 16. Carry out workshops and train more people locally on how to do telemetry properly.

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Raising Money For the RSPCA with MusicMagpie

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Raising money for charity doesn’t have to be hard work. Once you have gathered up all you cds, dvds, and video games go online to the musicMagpie website and scan in their barcodes using a web cam – alternatively manually enter the digits of your unwanted collection online and you will be given an individual price for each one.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)