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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Princeton Univ.

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St. Michael’s summer birding along the Danube in Serbia

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And I do not see any bird either, it was only my bird-compass telling me this is a place to stop. It is the largest woodpecker in Europe (to describe its size, I’ll tell you that Goldeneyes breed in the holes this pecker makes). Although the soil is visibly moist, there is no water flowing now.

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A long way from nowhere

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She has lived in the Middle East and the United States and traveled extensively in Europe. Broome Accommodation Mar 7th, 2011 at 7:50 pm A great post, thanks Clare, always great to see some of our local critters being documented. We can see forever-well, till the curve of the earth anyway! We are remote but what a great lifestyle!

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