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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. The chapter on compass errors will probably be the most popular amongst birders who love to discuss reversal and mirror-image migration routes.

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Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage

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These Blasts From The Past Requiem For The Rock Dove Domestic or Ganky Geese Birds at the Feeders in Saugerties Cardinal King Usurped The Sharpie: A Love-Hate Relationship About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. at Gloucester Harbor.Or

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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