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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020)

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Rather than belabor the obvious, I’ll just point out that the global pandemic may have spawned a new wave of birders, but collectively we’ve seen far fewer species of birds. Considering all that, I’m sure you’ll agree that a new year can’t come soon enough!

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.” Yes, I know it is getting a bit boring, but the scientific species name of the Rufous-headed Parrotbill, bakeri , honors yet another British ornithologist, Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864-1944).

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What’s in a Name?

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Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Johann Georg Wagner has seven birds named after him, from a chachalaca to a woodpecker, but would he have found more if hadn’t accidentally shot himself while out collecting? Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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The photographic quality ranges from very good to exceptional, and though the point of photographs in a book like this is to communicate information, I think the excellence of some of Loughlin’s photography suffers from the number of images packed into the book. I also think there are chapters where the photographs crowd out the text.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. I am not an accountant, but “substantial doubt” as to the ABA continuing as “going concern” strikes me as a very significant problem.

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Smart and Getting Smarter

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This all happened as I was suffering from the photographic affliction known as “light denial,” where I’m convinced there is still some light but sadly the day has ended and darkness reigns. Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect.

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White-tailed Antelope Squirrels at Joshua Tree National Park

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Amazingly for such a small creature it can tolerate body temperatures more than five degrees Celsius above normal without suffering ill effects, an adaptation that certainly helps it forage above ground for extended periods during the day before returning to its burrow to cool off.

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