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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. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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Baicich, one of our most passionate proponents of American birding conservation — misguided though he is on the topic of the Duck Stamp — has identified the Bold Ideas presented on the Conserving the Future site that deal specifically with birds and birding issues. They may weigh in to make their voices heard… or not.

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First Phoebe of 2011

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• Explore These Related Posts Spring is for Wheatears Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed Duck Migration Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Spring is Coming! Ken Januski Mar 21st, 2011 at 8:12 am Heard my first Phoebe on March 18 at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia. Thanks for visiting!

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

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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. ” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.”

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Most of the deer and duck hunters I know lament the loss of an old growth forest or flood-plain swamp as much as I do.

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