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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. Thanks for visiting!

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White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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Larry Jordan Mar 3rd, 2011 at 2:49 am @Robert it was definitely fortuitous and thanks for the comment @Corey thanks! OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Corey Mar 2nd, 2011 at 7:57 pm These shots are great. Isn’t digiscoping a wonderful thing?

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Leucistic Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

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I had neither seen before nor heard of an example of a leucistic* Ruddy Duck but a quick Google search let me know that this is definitely not the first (not surprisingly). OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Go check it out! Thanks for visiting!

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Bird Surprises

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Definitely!&# A wide-open field in a wind-protected spot, recently visited by both mechanical and living manure-spreaders. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! I ask, slamming on the brakes with no discernible result. he concurs.

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Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed

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Alan Tilmouth Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:44 pm Jochen, japonicus is still to be recorded in the UK but definitely on the radar of many I suspect. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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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. Thanks for visiting! The proposal from U.S.

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Tsunami Pics from Midway Atoll

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Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:42 am @Duncan: yes, there is definitely the hope that single catastrophic events will be compensated over time as long as the ecosystem stays largely intact and there is a core population left that has the ability to expand again. It could have been worse, and for the people on the coast of Japan it certainly was.

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