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Back Yard Birds

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One of the things that I have always considered a positive about living on a sailboat, besides the obvious, is the complete lack of yard work that is required. No lawn to mow, no shrubs or trees to tend to. The down side is that I also don’t get to enjoy the kinds of birds that would be found in a typical backyard. Over the last weekend, my wife and I made a whirl-wind trip from Mexico, up to the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle area, where we stayed with the in-laws.

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Statistics

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This blog had 1,072 visits during January, which is an average of 34.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 31.2.

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Birding Guanica, Puerto Rico

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It was early afternoon when Mike and I arrived at Bosque Estatal de Guanica, the large dry forest reserve on the south coast of Puerto Rico. We had three target birds to find there though two of them likely wouldn’t be findable until after dark. But the one we could find during daylight, the Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo , was a bird we couldn’t miss if we wanted to get all of the endemics and Guanica is supposed to be the best place for them on the island.

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What’s in a Name: A Murrelet Assortment

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It is now the month of love, and there are few birds I love more than the alcids. Thus, a day of murrelets and their names. According to Reedman , murre is the old Cornish world for a Razorbill , and eventually became a vernacular term for alcids more broadly; murrelet, then, makes simple sense as a name for the smaller members of the family. Some murrelets are named for their styling.

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Flight of a Red-tailed Hawk

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I can imagine how you hate to see a Bald Eagle in a movie and hear the Red-tailed Hawk screech. Yet, at least, the two of them can be found at the same place. Hence, it is not impossible to see one and hear the other at the same time. But try to imagine my surprise when I discovered that Red-tailed Hawks may be found in the Balkans! The other day I watched a TV ad for a local mobile network provider showing a bright young free climber Stasha scaling a wall somewhere in the hilly heart of Serbia

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Can the Falcons Win the Super Bowl?

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The hours are ticking down to Super Bowl LI, a hotly anticipated contest between perennial contenders New England Patriots and the upstart, high-flying Atlanta Falcons. As an avid American football fan and ardent birder, I may be uniquely qualified to predict the winner of the NFL Championship this year. That’s why, without actually evaluating the talent, chemistry, coaching, or momentum of either team, I feel qualified to answer the question so many fans have been asking.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of February 2017?

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Though we are now one-twelfth of the way through the calendar year, we’re each still firmly mired in whatever season we started the year. But time is wasting. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere and still want certain winter birds, this weekend is as good a time as any to go get them! The only birds I’m really focusing on this weekend are Falcons.

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Healthy Birds, Healthy Rainforest: Lessons from the Amazon

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A few years back, Audubon magazine published a thoughtful article and series of musings (including those of our very own Corey Finger) on the subject of why birds matter. Of course, if you’re reading this, then birds clearly matter to you, for any one of a number of reasons. But not everyone sees things through such an avian-positive lens, and hence science often has to make the case for birds’ intrinsic worth.

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Jack Snipe

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We have done some bush-walking this week around Broome as the weather permits, but still no luck with finding any Snipe species for the 2017 list ! The land is saturated after several tropical storms and attempting to walk around a lagoon this past week became impossible and we just had to resort to wading! There are actually a lot less waterbirds than you might expect at some lagoons, but there is just so much water about the birds are spoiled for choice.

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Counting birds that count on us.

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The World’s biggest citizen science wildlife count takes place this weekend. It is a very simple and accessible event which requires each observer to sit for one hour in their garden or a local park. Their observations are then entered to the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch site. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the prominent bird organisation in Great Britain.

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Ten Years Gone

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Here are the posts from February 2007.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2017)

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The end of January, undistinguished at least from a holiday perspective, means different things to different people in different parts of the world. For me, the end of this long, cold month signals the beginning of the end of my patience for cold weather. Which will give out first: winter or my tolerance of winter? If you know me, you already know the answer… Nonetheless, winter means winter ducks in these parts, so I rambled up to Lake Ontario to see if I could scare up some scoters.

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