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Little Big Year – Week 34: We visit Colorado and Texas

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With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir. It’s not Prairie Falcon , but it is a great little Rock Wren.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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Like the two previous books in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright and the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Colorado by Ted Floyd (photographs for all three primarily by master photographer Brian E. From the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Colorado.

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Birding Adventure in Mexico Part II: Durango Highway

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This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” Finches, for example, are “especially prone to nomadism,” and Falcons, as many experienced birders know, are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than to hawks and eagles. And, each essay tells a story.

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