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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. But it’s a very fluid definition, as the book makes very clear. internal compasses tied to the earth’s magnetic fields? other compass senses like the stars?–and

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves (that’s all there are) and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments¬ ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. • Explore These Related Posts What is a raptor?

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!

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Avian Quiz – March 11, 2011

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I have encountered this situation only one time in my birding experience. 2. Size is interesting, but isn’t definitive. 3. Facial characteristics are interesting, but aren’t definitive. 5. Song is interesting, but isn’t definitive. It is not a new book, about 6 years old. But not while flying. Think “white”.

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Veraguan Mango – Panama's ex-endemic

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Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. Hope you have a great trip there in July!

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