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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. As shown by the photo, below, of McMullan and Merlin, his Eurasian Eagle Owl friend, McMullan is a rough-hewn 6’4” foot bear of a man; he describes himself as resembling a character from the World Wrestling Federation.

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). This is what a Black Hawk-Eagle shape looks like. Ornate Hawk-Eagle. Yellow-naped Parrot. Bare-necked Umbrellabird. Black Guan. Black-breasted Wood-Quail.

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

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Remaining Afroaves.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though.

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