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LISTEN TO THE BIRDS: A KidLit Bird Book Review

10,000 Birds

With the app downloaded onto a phone and the phone camera pointed to a bird in the book, the bird seems to come alive, move — and sing. With its treasure trove of details on song, behavior, and habitats, this book and app combination is so engaging that adult readers may find themselves new facts right alongside the kids.

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All Is Not Lost, Part II

10,000 Birds

Having said all that, I’ll give some context by showing, once again, an image I included in my post just last week: This photo, downloaded from a birders’ chat, shows Lake Cuitzeo on Monday, February 5th. The foreground shows the current state of most of the lake, which is now a bone-dry lakebed.

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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. Only when I downloaded my images did I spot the ring, which was clear and easy to read (2BAT). It was feeding on mud flats in the harbour of Brancaster Staithe, on the North Norfolk coast.

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The Cry of the Curlew

10,000 Birds

What I didn’t notice until I downloaded my photographs ( above and below ) was the fact that she had been colour ringed, with a red ring on her right leg, and green ring above yellow on her left leg. I managed to photograph the bird on Thetford Heath, an obvious female with her very long beak. Males have noticeably shorter beaks.)

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2018)

10,000 Birds

Were we to ascribe to weekends the taxonomy of birds, our days would likely resemble our lists: for every resplendent songbird or wild raptor would be ten ordinary gulls or pigeons, interesting in their own rights but hardly worth raving about. But gulls can inspire excitement too. Corey and I both landed interesting larids this weekend.

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Pet Pic App

4 The Love Of Animals

Once you have captured that perfect photo, you can send it right to Facebook, and save it in your photos too for sharing in other ways. We were very happy to have the chance to download and try it out for this review. There are dog sounds, cat sounds, and even squeek toy sounds.

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Hummer Time

10,000 Birds

Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes! Download a complete list of the Birds of Aransas NWR. Of the 300 hummingbird species across the globe, North America only sees fewer than two dozen of them. So let’s plan that trip, shall we? Costa’s hummingbird, Photo © Robin L.

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