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All Is Not Lost, Part II

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And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. The photo also illustrates how our drought affects two groups of resident and wintering birds (which number in the hundreds of thousands).

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. I can find no reliable estimates of the numbers of birding-related apps that have been downloaded. * * * *. Individually, all the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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The album is available online and can be used interactively on the web or downloaded (the URL is given in the Introduction). A group of owls is traditionally called a parliament, though there is a line of thought that C.S. taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Is a free digital download possible?) Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Besides the usual checkboxes to tick your sightings, it offers the additional info of the species status (from common to scarce, with geographical remarks such as “vagrant (Peninsula)”).

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