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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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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 silk screen process produced rich, two-dimensional images, and its limitations ironically helped him reach greater simplicity of form. (c).

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family). In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry. Thanks for visiting!

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Thanks for visiting!

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) In addition, there may be some built-in (genetic) processing ability. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Image source.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

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Beyond being an amazing poem, however, “The Raven&# has the additional attraction of being the subject of an essay by the poet himself that explains the process he used to write it. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Thanks for visiting!

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