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Best Bird of the Weekend (Great Backyard Bird Count 2012)

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This weekend was dedicated to enjoying the company of my visiting mother, brother, sister-in-law, and niece. The gender of this duck drove my decision, since I swore I would not be moved to chase a drab eider hen, even if it would be a life bird. Consequently, I spent lots of time in non-birdy environments. Is he becoming a larophile?

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. There is also text, distribution maps, a dark red bar “warning” about similar looking rare species, and conservation symbols. So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2017)

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I counted birds not at my own feeders but at those of my mother-in-law, where my best sighting was a single Northern Raven that croaked back and forth for hours in the unexpectedly warm winter sun. Neither was it an American Bittern , a Harlequin Duck , nor any of the three scoters despite him seeing all of those as well.

2017 108
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Our Best Birds of 2020

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are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Clare (and Grant!) How cool is that?

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

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Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. Bird researchers are good people! I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. Bird researchers are good people! I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.