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A new bower in Cygnet Park-Broome

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The header photo is the new Great Bowerbirds ‘ bower and the photos below show the contents. Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is amongst some quite dense bush, but the white items make it stand out.

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Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

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This comprehensive book features concise identification descriptions and is richly illustrated—including more than 650 colour photos of habitats and their wildlife, 150 distribution maps, 200 diagrams, and 150 silhouettes depicting each habitat alongside a human figure. Minor inconsistencies aside, the textual descriptions are a real gem.

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I found something very strange and meatlike in my backyard, and have no clue what it is. Any idea what this horrifying object is? It was on the ground near a pine tree [MI]

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Content warning- this is a gross meaty blob - picture of the thing (ignore the glass in the bag, I was cleaning and this was going in the trash anyway so I added the mystery meat to the same bag) In terms of size, my partner estimated that it was 'about a 6 ounce filet' which has put me off steaks for a while.

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A Near Conjunction

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As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. These birds are typically found in scrub and open habitat, how this individual was able to locate this field within the Northern Range is testament to the scale of human disturbance along the roadway.

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Shut up, Zebra Finch, you’re drunk

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The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. alcohol content*) and prompted them to sing by playing recordings of females. They also believe their results demonstrate the bird’s potential for further studies of how alcohol affects human speech.

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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu

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According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of August 2014?

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While most humans tend towards vagrancy, at least in the vacationing sense, during the height of summer, northern birds seem content to stay local and play house. Hoping for a hot one this weekend, though maybe not Africa desert hot!. But domestic bliss only lasts so long among avians.

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