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A Relaxing Big Day in Florida

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My husband and I hooked up our boat to the trailer and set off to the Santa Rosa Sound in Florida’s Panhandle around 3 p.m., We didn’t have any set course; I sat behind the wheel of the center console while Brian used the trolling motor to cast after fish. That my data would be used in a global citizen science event?

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Of course, you can use the data in many ways. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5.

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Big Years in 2013

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There are, of course, more big years happening this year. The following is not an exhaustive list, of course, but hopefully we will learn of more big years in the comments. Rangel Diaz is doing a big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, hoping to reach 300 species, and keeping a blog about it. What records will fall in 2013?

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. The weeks leading up to spring break had been a whirlwind, and the days before the trip mostly spent driving and exploring Florida.

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No Other Way by Roger Real Drouin

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A grail, of course, is not just a rare and interesting cup. Asides that in science fiction might be called info-dumps nevertheless abound with interesting facts about a huge variety of bird species, as well as some loving descriptions of both birds and landscapes. The fact of this grail bird is vital to the whole story.

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Flock to Marion

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Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.