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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. San Diego has a lot going for it. Whether you want a short walk or a longer hike, San Elijo Wetland can offer that.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of July 2018)

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Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. The reason I ask is because my family and I visited the Bronx Zoo this weekend. Turacos, hornbills, and diverse ducks were far more interesting than the robins and catbirds scrounging around the exhibits.

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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. Also, if lots of ducks and geese gather in a spot where they don’t normally the amount of bird poop could certainly be a problem.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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The closer one raises her head, than lies back. The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. These are my first wild tigers ever!

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

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Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Park in the lot across from Summit Gardens and Zoo, then walk across the railroad tracks. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks. Unfortunately, Summit Ponds themselves can be tough to find. Great Tinamou.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. It is very possible that Mike and Corey will penalize me for including the Mandarin Duck–also known as the “Hot Duck,” “Mandy” only to tourists and the Gothamist–in this list, but its celebrity cannot be ignored. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck. ” [[link].

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. The one for bird photographers (a Spot-billed Duck ) is shown below. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks.

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