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The Joys of Urban Birding in SE Europe

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Even before I turn the engine off, I hear the frog-like song of the Great Reed-Warblers. In a cold morning after a rainy night, some 200 Barn Swallows are hawking for insects low over the pond, while almost a thousand newly-arrived Sand Martins (Bank Swallows) are doing the same higher, above the tree tops. A Common Cuckoo is singing from the reeds, while another rufous morph female flies from one bank to another.

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Kakapo are having a great year.

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It sometimes feels like being a conservationist is like being a punching bag, blow after blow of bad news after bad news hits us day after day. So let’s celebrate some good news today; Kakapo are having one of their best ever breeding seasons since European settlement. . Kakapo are strange birds. The world’s largest parrot is also a flightless inhabitant of the night, because of course it is.

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Noisy, but nice

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Blogging is a peculiar activity. It initiates an internal monologue when one is alone in the field and keeps up the chatter all day, even when nothing is happening. But something must happen otherwise, God forbid, there will be nothing to blog about. So when, during a quiet morning on Key Biscayne, an Indian Peafowl rustled his train in preparation for his display, the inner voices cheered and pointed with relief.

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Big Whoop, Indeed: Whooping Cranes in Louisiana!

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In the fight against extinction, score one—actually, make that two—for Whooping Cranes. For the first time in 75 years, a pair has successfully nested in Louisiana , producing not one but two fuzzy, wild-born chicks. With the bird’s total population hovering roughly 600, every new addition counts—and counts big. Louisiana’s last wild Whoopers disappeared just after World War II.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of April 2016?

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The last weekend of April may as well be May, which we know is a major month of migration. Don’t miss it! I have family visiting this weekend, which means my chances of getting out into the field seem slim. Wish me luck! Corey needs some luck as well; he missed the vagrant Swainson’s Warbler in Central Park, so he’ll be looking for his own in Queens.

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What is the State Bird of South Dakota?

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Many states choose their representative bird based on common, native birds spending part or all of the year within the states’ borders. South Dakota went a different way, designating the Ring-necked Pheasant as the state bird in 1943. In fact, the bird is so popular that it was also chosen for South Dakota’s bicentennial commemorative quarter!

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Birding Broome’s Sport Ovals

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I mentioned last week that the lack of rain and warmer temperatures over the past few months have had a devastating effect on the reef along Broome’s coastline resulting in coral bleaching. The lack of rain has also resulted in the local ephemeral lakes not filling up and birds having to move to town for both food and water. One of the best places to observe birds in Broome apart from the Poo Ponds are any of the sport ovals.

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Heermann’s Gull – A Mexican Beauty

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La Paz, Mexico has a beautiful well maintained sidewalk along its waterfront called a malecón. While it is exceptionally well used by joggers, bike riders and multigenerational families out for a walk, bird watchers from all the world are now taking advantage of its easy access to the many local bird species. My personal bird count for walking the malecón is now at 67 species.

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