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Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

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Between the two breeding bird atlases in the state – one done in the early ’80s and one in the early ’00s – the number of atlas blocks with Vesper Sparrows declined 49%, a decline that is echoed in breeding bird survey routes as well. What has caused the decline? .* What has caused the decline?

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Junco Mashup

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Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

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Today, even as technological progress untethers us with more and more wireless applications each year, up to 185 million utility poles remain erected across the United States alone as permanent vestiges on our landscape. Each a Gorgon’s head, which, seized right, Could stun us to stone. Barnacles as compose. Yet they are ours.

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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist

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Kaufman guides are colorful and well-designed and convenient, just the right size and weight to slip into a backpack or even a pocket. And, which region of the United States do you think should be next in what promises to be an excellent series? It is the perfect field guide for the beginning naturalist.

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Two Hummingbirds In New York – In November!

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It is one thing for a single hummingbird to show up at a single location in the northeastern United States in November. Just to make sure, please take a good look at these pictures and let me know if you see anything that indicates anything other than a Ruby-throated Hummingbird … Ruby-throated Hummingbird all the way, right?

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