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Check Out Outbirding with Field Guides

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How could we continue doing what we love—teaching folks about birds and natural history—without traveling the world physically with our tour groups? After some deliberation within the company, we landed on the idea of an online video series, OutBirding with Field Guides.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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Connecticut Warblers are rarely seen in Connecticut or anywhere else for that matter. Tennessee Warblers may be fairly drab by the prismatic standards of this group, but they certainly get around. Nor does it need to, as the bird’s French name Paruline à joues grises translates nicely to Gray-cheeked Warbler.

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What Birds Will Get Me To 300 In Queens?

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Connecticut Warbler - The next-to-last of the expected wood-warblers to get added to my Queens list. The link for Connecticut Warbler , by the way, leads to a bird I wasn’t sure about but that same day I had one that left no doubt in my mind.) The only seabird of the group and it figures it is one that I hadn’t predicted!

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Update on Proposition 2 in CA

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Gregory is the president and CEO of UEP, an industry trade group. Efforts for such a ballot initiative in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont have failed but efforts are currently underway to establish similar legislation in Colorado and Washington.

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I and the Bird: What is a Swallow?

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If birders say they love birds ostensibly because they can fly and we cannot, then there must be no more beloved group of birds than the swallows. Oriental Honey Buzzard mobbed by House Swallows - YC Lee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Connecticut River Swallow Spectacle – Nick Bonomo, Shorebirder. General Swallows.

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Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

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The thought of identifying certain groups of birds can incapacitate them. Compared to something like a Connecticut Warbler , they are just begging to be looked at. See, it’s not so scary! Photographed at Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, MT. Birders are a timid bunch. They are scared of all sorts of things. Galled at gulls.

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Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed

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• Explore These Related Posts First Phoebe of 2011 Duck Migration Review of Gulf Crossing Cold Front Connecticut in Carolina (or how migrants surprise us).Or Get yours today! Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

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