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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* ” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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I began a program for PBS on a group of young kids in a small town in South Dakota. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species.

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Petrel Paradise

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Fluttering Shearwater ( Puffinus gavia ) Flesh-footed Shearwater ( Puffinus carneipes ) Buller’s Shearwater ( Puffinus bulleri ) Along with these three were Two further species, also both familiar to North American birders, Sooty Shearwaters and Short-tailed Shearwaters. It is also restricted as a breeder to the north of North Island.

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The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida

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Getting to know the subtleties in differences between closely related species takes years of dedication and practice. Thirdly, many species of shorebirds display such vast differences in their summer and winter plumages that it is always interesting to note how some birds in the same flock are in contrasting stages of plumage.

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Manky Muscovy Ducks

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However, the species sometimes referred to as the Barbary Duck appears very much out of place just about everywhere else. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. All Muscovies are large ducks with long talons and a wide flat tail.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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And a very happy Masemas for anyone who observes my son Mason’s birthday (probably not as many as the last group!) Turkeys, 3 or 4 species of woodpeckers, all kinds of song birds grace our view constantly. Jochen the swallows have arrived at NYC at Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge too. As I said, we are blessed.

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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. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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