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Urban Birding in San Diego

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There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). (The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”)

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Birding Puerto Rico’s Humacao Nature Reserve

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We spent awhile scanning the lagoons and were rewarded for our efforts with a host of Ruddy Ducks , a pair of Blue-winged Teal , lots of Common Gallinules and a bunch of American Coots which would have been a lot more exciting if they were still Caribbean Coots. This Puerto Rican Woodpecker was our second sighting of an endemic for the day.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Christmas Day birding around Broome

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It is a little tradition we started when we were not both working on Christmas Day and a great way to pass the day when you don’t have family in the same state or time zone! The variety of ducks was good and especially the high presence of Pink-eared Ducks. Pink-eared Ducks and Grey Teal. Black-fronted Dotterel.

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

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Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this serious world birder? With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. If you have kids, you’re probably as curious as I was.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. ” So, the guide also covers more familiar birds that spend some of their lives on or close to land—seaducks, grebes, skimmers, gulls, terns, loons, cormorants and shags, and pelicans. There is one exception–ducks. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

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