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Is It So Hard To Understand Why Birders and Wildlife Conservationists Don’t Buy the Duck Stamp?

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In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters. Why promote the stamp to waterfowl hunters when it is mandatory that they buy one to hunt waterfowl? clean water) benefit from the contributions of hunters and anglers.”

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers. It’s not always easy reading.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. I suspect social learning, well documented in birds.) Clearly, more research is needed!

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832). And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. Accessorizing for birds.

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Duck Migration

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened? It was a great experience. Heard our first Eastern Curlew leaving to go north Friday night. Were you and Jeff the only witnesses?

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.