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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica: to claim our feathery gold

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In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. They became accustomed to feeding the visiting fishermen, and in 1971 they built a small cabin for guests.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). Hainlin Mill Sparrow Drive. Motuara Island.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2022

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Chinese researchers have actually been able to identify individual Asian Stubtails on the basis of their songs ( source ). It seems that a lot of ornithological research is based on thinking about what makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, and then checking whether this actually the case. Most likely, this is a Common Cuckoo.

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