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Labor Day & Hummingbird Feeders

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Let’s just start this post with the answer someone googling this info will need: You do not need to take your hummingbird feeder in on Labor Day. It is a myth, an old wives’ tale and completely not true that if you leave your hummingbird feeder outside that you will prevent them from migrating south. I know humans as a whole are a powerful species, but really, we do not have that much control over hummingbird migration ( Trumpeter Swans , maybe, but not hummingbirds).

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Giveaway: The Lost Dogs

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Called the “Vicktory Dogs” by many, the 47 pit bulls who survived Michael Vick’s cruelty have struck a chord with the nation. The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption tells the tale of how the dogs came to be rescued, and the extraordinary lengths that some very caring people went through to make sure the dogs got a second chance.

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Crazy Flickers

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Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. However, he’s been known to share his perspicacious avian observations around the web, including right here! Last time, Alex asked us to Consider the Chickadee. Today, he talks about a crazy woodpecker… A couple of years ago there was a big controversy on NPR about woodpeckers.

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The Big Year Trailer Released

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The moment birders everywhere have been waiting for is almost here. No, it is not an epic morning of birding full of a host of life birds but the theatrical release of The Big Year , the movie about competitive birding based on the book by Mark Obmascik. It will star Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black but I am really looking forward to Jim Parsons as a bird blogger.

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Mexican Warblers

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I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east China, but my thoughts and best wishes are with anyone who has been affected by the storms. If Mexico City itself was not high enough, the mountains to the south rise above 12,300 feet and I was there looking for a Sierra Madre Sparrow to confirm a sighting of this rare and local sparrow from 15 years ago.

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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

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Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. But later in August, Alexander Suh at the University of Münster emailed me about a new paper he and his colleagues have just published: Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of

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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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“Purple Martins&# first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel , published six years after he rose to prominence following the publication of some of his poems in the famed Poetry magazine. Though one thinks automatically of Chicago when one thinks of Sandburg if one thinks of anything at all he actually wrote poems on a variety of topics.

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Talking Turkey (Vulture): Great Quotes about Vultures

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Today is International Vulture Awareness Day ! Rather than go into great detail about a variety of vultures as we have in the past, I tracked down five great quotes about Turkey Vultures , or, at least, five quotes that are either about Turkey Vultures or generically about vultures. Though I had a couple in mind I never knew that it would be so easy to find such great quotes about such ugly birds.

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Tracking Happy Feet

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Remember that Emperor Penguin that showed up in New Zealand? Have you wondered what it is up to? Wonder no longer! You can follow the travels and travails of Happy Feet here. a.

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Ground Zero Hero

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Sarah Atlas is a search-and-rescue dog handler, one of many civilian volunteers who serve with New Jersey Task Force 1. On the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Sarah got the call at 8:46 that she and her German Shepherd, Anna, who was trained for live find and as a therapy dog were to report to the Lakehurst Naval Engineering Station. They were to be deployed to Ground Zero with 200 other members of New Jersey Task Force 1, including structural engineers and medical workers, as well

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A Northern Wheatear in New York

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When you are a New York City-based birder that is pretty pleased with the amount of boxes ticked off on your New York State checklist you would normally want a rarity that you have not seen in the state to show up within an hour drive of your home. But you do not want this to happen while you are outside of Philadelphia and facing hours of rain-slowed traffic just to get back to New York City, especially when the bird in question, while within the one hour radius of home, is on the northern edg

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Early Autumn Migrants

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Labor Day weekend has passed, the kids are back in school, and it is now (un)officially autumn in the United States no matter how high the mercury rises. Of course actual autumn does not begin until after the autumnal equinox which is on 23 September this year. But try telling that to the birds, some of which started south during what we considered the height of summer.

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Great Kestrel Count 2011

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Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of. In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed Hawks. Obviously, Bald Eagles are a pretty big deal too. Those bigger birds of prey command respect, but it’s not like falcons are unknown. Even outside of Atlanta , Peregrine Falcons spend their breeding seasons smiling for the ( web ) camera from atop edifices all across the country.

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What is Wrong with People?

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In Dartmouth, Massachusetts an Osprey was recently found with a gunshot wound that proved fatal and in Santa Clara, California some sick person has taken to shooting Mallards with darts from a blowgun. What is wrong with people? a.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of September 2011?

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At last, my world is back on its usual academic year axis, spinning on a schedule I expect to enjoy as days wane then wax. How about yours? Is everything back to normal or is the very concept of normalcy alien to you? Whether you keep a schedule or not, the birds in your life certainly do. Even now, many of them are migrating along paths laid down over countless generations of feathered forbears.

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Where to See Kiwi (and other birds) During the Rugby World Cup

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If there is one thing that Kiwis care about, it’s birds. No, wait, not birds. Rugby. Kiwis care about rugby. A lot. Rugby Union, to be specific (not Rugby League) and most particularly they care about the national team, the world famous All Blacks. This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two match

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Elsukdo Island in search of shorebirds

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Well one day this week saw me searching for shorebirds, as there must be some here somewhere that I can get to. There are signs up to explain that there are not many left due to reclamation, industry and pollution along the Nakdong Estuary, but I must be able to find something if I go out on low tide… surely?! I am enjoying the forest birds, but a shorebird would be a change and it would mean no climbing mountains!

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Killing Birds in Cyprus – Fall 2011 Version

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Summer is ending, and that means the birds are migrating again. In Cyprus it also means that the hunters and trappers are active again. It starts with the trappers, who’ve been at it for weeks now. BirdLife Cyprus started their Fall monitoring program weeks ago. The trapping is particularly bad in the Cape Pyla area. If you’re a tourist there, no problem, you can get some sand and sun only a walking distance from fields used for trapping.

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Magpie Execution Halted

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The magpie that we mentioned earlier today that was facing death in Tweed Heads, Australia, for attacking passersby has been given a stay of execution ! Whoo-hoo! a.

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Stop Taking My Picture, Peasant!

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On the day after the most epic day of hurricane birding I’ve ever experienced I, like quite a few other New York State birders, was out again searching for one more storm-tossed rarity. I decided to focus my attention on the coast of Queens both because I wanted to add some birds to my Queens list and because I had limited time to be out birding after having spent most of Sunday spotting rarities.

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Pollinate Me! I’ll Make It Easy!

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A plant in South Africa, commonly called Rat’s Tail but referred to by scientists as Babiana ringens , evolved a perch for birds to use while feeding. This aids the plants because they get pollinated as part of the bargain. Now if only one of the plants in New York would evolve a couch near a good birding spot… a.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of September 2011)

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Did you enjoy your summer? The Autumnal Equinox may still be a few weeks away, but make no mistake: summer is over. Time to pack up your white shoes and pick up those school supplies! Fall surely has much to recommend it like migrating birds and mulled cider, but today we in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the end of endless summer days. Having fun?

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The Black Death

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It was a dark and stormy night. Turdus “Blacky&# Merula sat near the trunk of the small evergreen in the backyard that was his territory’s centre, hunkered down and head tucked in to shelter from the rain. He was an old male in his prime, and he had seen many things – but never had he envisioned dark times like these. The darkness was all around him.

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This Seems Drastic

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Can no one think of a less deadly solution ? Also, the community is called Tweed Heads? a.

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Saving the Bald Ibis

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Birders everywhere should appreciate Turan Çetin. a.

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Getting Eaten Hurts

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Hurricane Irene Birding Wrap-Up

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There might be some question as to if the birding that resulted from Hurricane Irene on Sunday, 28 August 2011, was the best birding ever in New York State but any day that can even be entered into that conversation is going to feature some amazingly good birding. Though I have already detailed my experience that day I felt that it was worthwhile to give a fuller account of what was going on along the coast on Long Island, in New York City proper, and up the Hudson River wherever storm-tossed b

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Birds Don’t Lay Chicks

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Many thanks to Duncan to pointing out this item about a host of House Martins descending on a single house in Malvin, Worcestershire, from the “ The Daily Fail.&# The homeowner is quoted, without correction, as saying, “We think the mothers laid the chicks in our guttering which is very high and the other birds came to look after them.&# a.

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Correcting course in Appalachia

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The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to the fir covered forests of New England. Unbeknownst to most of the millions of Americans that live within a few hours drive of their misty peaks and secluded hollows, the ancient, topographically diverse Appalachians are one of the biodiversity hotspots of the planet, comparable with the tropics in the western hemisphere.

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Twenty Hummingbirds To See Before You Die

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You are wandering through a tropical rainforest. It is late morning and the humidity seems to rise with every step. Life is crawling, buzzing, slithering, climbing, burrowing all around you. Brightly-colored poison dart frogs light up the dark undergrowth like mobile glow-sticks. Fantastic caterpillars, otherworldly insects, ghoulish spiders, tiny scattering creatures.

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