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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2019)

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I haven’t always acted in accordance with this philosophy, but those avian observation excursions undertaken with friends or family loom larger in mind than the ones I took alone. The only unfortunate thing was that Corey was not even halfway up the pond and had to content himself with distant scope looks at the avocets from the Raunt.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2013)

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Most people can live with that, content in the knowledge that much of the year was spent in pursuit of worthy goals and satisfied to glide towards year’s end. I spent the weekend with my family in the Bronx and was amazed by the proliferation of Red-tailed Hawks. are pretty much set. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Beat Writer Changes

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First, we are sad to see Dale Forbes go, at least temporarily, as the pressures of his job are too much for him with the added pressure of producing great content every other week here on 10,000 Birds. We will miss him and his “Looking Out From The Alps” but we do hope that when his job slows down a bit that he will be back.

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The Hummingbird that Answered My Heart’s Calling by Noelle M. Meade-Izzi

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From Owls in the Family to Wesley the Owl , the narrative in which a human interacts with another species and learns a bit about life along the way has long been a popular and affecting one. This is a pretty good model of the modern environmental ethic of self-restraint and respectful watching.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Once I got past the scientific explanations and simply accepted that BBI is an approach worth trying, I found plenty of substantive content in Birding by Impression.

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