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The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion: A Review and a Little More

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The first step was to download The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion files, which are in MP3 format, from the Macaulay Library website to the iTunes program on my computer. The Companion files should be downloadable to other mobile devices, just be aware that the focus here is on using iTunes.

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

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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. It’s an attractive design approach, an easy entryway for someone totally new to the subject. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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Playback of Bird Calls Benefits Some Birds

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They are big, expensive and it can take up to five years to attract them even if you have the right habitat. If you do not have the right habitat or are unwilling to maintain it, it can become a very expensive House Sparrow nesting colony. You can get it as a cassette, CD or even download an mp3 of it.

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Where to Watch Birds in the Iron Gates

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The national park ranges some 100 km in length along the right bank of the Danube (the left bank is in Romania), where the river varies in width from 5 km / 3 mi to only 150 m / 500 ft and the mountains rise up to 800 m / 2600 ft a.s.l. Download the map of the Upper Gorge. Download the map of the Lower Gorge.

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Greece: Pelicans galore at Lake Kerkini

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At the same time, one Black Stork wades through the shallows, right next to the road. BirdLife Greece has recently published the Greek bird finder, available online as pdf and downloadable as an android smartphone application. This time we stop by the yellow bouy – again, that is as close as we are allowed to go.

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Layover in Singapore

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The clean, easy and modern Subway/Metro system here is known as the SMRT (map, and fare/time calculator link) and there is a station at the airport (Google Earth cut and paste ref; 1°21’27.49″N 103°59’20.64″E ( If you don’t already have Google Earth, it can be downloaded for free at this link )). Spotted Wood-owl.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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This meant that the app I had downloaded to my phone, Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa , produced by mydigitalearth.com, was the same as the book I had brought, which was not my intent.The app itself was excellent–easy to use, comprehensive, and relieving me of the burden of carrying a heavy book in my backpack.