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How do Birds get their Color?

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Birds have captivated us for time eternal, not only because of their ability to fly, but also because of the color they add to our lives. Ok, let me be clear that I’m not suggesting that ALL birds are colorful. Birds like Plain Chachalacas and Grey Catbirds hardly evoke images of stunning beauty. But a vast number of species DO exhibit dazzling displays of color.

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Following Atticus

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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started reading Following Atticus: Forty-eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship. After all, it was a memoir of a middle aged man who didn’t seem to be very happy. But it wasn’t long before I was drawn into the story of this man and a dog. Well, not just one dog, but two very special dogs.

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Bullfighting to Appear on Spanish TV Again

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From the Telegraph. State-financed broadcaster RTVE said it would screen a bullfight from the city of Valladolid on September 5, overturning a ban imposed under the previous socialist government. In 2006, guidelines prohibited the showing of live bullfights because the "violent images" were unsuitable to be broadcast between 6 and 8 pm, during hours when children were most likely to be watching.

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Hummingbirds of Trinidad

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The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago may share equal billing in the dichotomous nation’s name, but Trinidad boasts the lion’s share of the land mass, population, and hummingbirds. My focus during my June 2012 visit was obviously on the hummingbirds. Visitors to Trinidad can scarcely help encountering stunning hummers just about everywhere.

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Birding Templehof

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In southern Berlin there is a massive old decommissioned airport that has been turned into a park. Templehofer Feld, now generally called Templehof Park or just plain Templehof, has pretty decent habitat for open country birds, considering that it is huge, flat, and gradually returning to nature. Sure, the old runways and service roads are still there but the areas between them are not mowed very often, some of the paved areas have been allowed to go completely wild, and nature, as always, finds

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Ten Ways To Be A Better (Online) Birder

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1. Report the rare birds you see, including known “continuing” rarities. This is a no-brainer. 2. Sometimes, report the rare birds you DON’T see. This could be very helpful to those debating a chase trip. 3.Quit being so anal retentive. Birders have the capacity to be bafflingly anal (its all part of the nerd persona I guess), but this is evident online more than anyplace else.

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Unique Wedding Idea: Include Your Pets!

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Weddings are all about celebrating the love that you have for your partner, but who was there to cuddle up to on those long lonely nights before you met? That’s right, your faithful, adoring four-legged friend. When it comes to unconditional love, there’s nothing like the bond between you and your pet, so it’s natural to want pets to be a part of the most important day of your life.

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Once in a Blue Moon

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Tonight’s full moon is something special. It is a blue moon! No, don’t go rushing to outer space in the hope of getting bleu cheese – not only is the moon not made of cheese but it isn’t actually going to turn blue either. The term “blue moon” refers to the second full moon of a month, something that happens only every two or three years (to be exact, seven out of every nineteen years).

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Rufous Hummingbirds Are Heading South for the Winter

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Rufous Hummingbirds ( Selasphorus rufus ) breed farther North than any other North American hummingbird and have the longest migration route of all U.S. hummers. Their spring migration brings the majority of them through Northern California in April when these photos of the male Rufous Hummingbird were taken. Click on photos for full sized images. They appear again in my yard in August, on their way back to Mexico where most of them spend their winters.

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The Incredible Dr. Pol

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a vet that worked on farm animals? Be sure to tune in tonight to The Incredible Dr. Pol which premiers at 10PM ET on NatGeo! Of course, we have a clip to share with you to get you excited to tune in: With more than 19,000 patients, Dr. Pol has seen it all. Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old school, no-nonsense approach to veterinary medicine.

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Weka, New Zealand’s Nimble-beaked Thieves

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Once upon a time the average bird on Earth was a rail. Before humans spread across the oceans of the world, wiping out huge numbers of endemic insular species , pretty much every decent sized island far from the continents had its own species of rail. There is something about the group that predisposes them to end up on far flung islands and having done so lose their ability to fly and thrive.

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Close Encounters

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One of the truly incredible things about Nature is how it can continually surprise you. There are patterns, to be sure, a certain predictability in pathways, behaviours, timing. But often, when you are out looking, exploring, and expecting things to unfold a particular way Nature throws a surprise party in your lap. Recently a friend led me to the vicinity of a Rough-legged Hawk nest.

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Staying Out Late

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Next time you find the light fading and resign yourself to a night sky filled with owls and bats, remember that some diurnal denizens like to stay out late too. Red-tailed Hawks have a habit of hunting well into the night if there is any available light and the getting is good. Gophers that live near streetlights beware. I suppose their light gathering abilities work well enough in dim conditions to create some overlap with the nightly arrival of their nocturnal relatives.

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Five Things I Learned While Birding in Germany

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We are back from our ten-day family vacation to Berlin and Prague and it was awesome. What’s not to like about cobblestone streets, great architecture, wonderful friends, lots of beer and delicious food, unfamiliar birds, and not working for ten days? Nothing, that’s what! But this is a bird blog so I will stick to the birds here and simply share five things that I learned while birding in Germany or, to be more exact, while birding in Berlin. 5.

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Finding Birds on a Workday

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Like many birders I am cursed with a job. Considering the economic times we live in that is probably not the most politic way of putting it but when there are good birds around (And when isn’t there?) a job can feel more like an albatross around your neck than a goose laying golden eggs. Or something. Anyway, one of my defense mechanisms from the work-a-day world is finding little bits of time before, during, or after the work day to look for birds.

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Save the Whales! Kill Some Gulls?

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Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. The solution? Kill the gulls. There has to be a better way to deal with this, no?

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of September 2012?

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Neither labor nor the rights of the American working class are all that popular these days, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer. On the bright side, countless millions of kids will be grumbling their way back to school next week.

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Pledge 2 Fledge is Underway

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We’re in the midst of the Pledge 2 Fledge , an international grassroots campaign to introduce friends and neighbors to the dizzying delights of birding. Have you pledged?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of August 2012)

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The last weekend of August doesn’t actually equate to the last weekend of summer. Officially, that arrives around the third weekend of September, but we in the U.S. consider this coming Labor Day weekend to be the unofficial terminus to summer unseriousness. However you slice it, this current season is drawing to a close. The good news in that is that a season of migration is winging its way wherever you are.

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Dog Names Infographic

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Dog names graphic produced by Matt Beswick for Pet365. Click here to view the original post.

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Review: The Puffin by Mike P Harris and Sarah Wanless

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Puffins! Do you want to know about them? I mean, really, really know about them? Of course you do. The Atlantic Puffin is one of the most charismatic of auks. I’m pretty sure that the only way that anyone could dislike Atlantic Puffins is in some kind of ironic way… but no, with its bright beak and earnestness, the puffin is also well-placed for hipster love, so they have that covered.

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Jankowski’s Bunting – Close to Extinction

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Read Terry Townshend’s post on the endangered Jankowski’s Bunting of northeastern China. This is a bird that needs help.

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Mexican Town Opposes Bullfighting

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From Latino Fox News. Mexico's first "anti-bullfighting" town has signed a petition calling on the United Nations to approve a universal declaration on animal welfare. More than 220 organizations, headed by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, are collecting signatures worldwide to petition the United Nations to adopt the proposed Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare.

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Are Black Woodpeckers just a Hoax?

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No, they are not. Get over it, Corey. Pictures taken near Heidelberg in July 2012.

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Two Year Blogoversary

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My mom’s been blogging for two straight years now. Go check out Finger on the Shutter.

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Canada's Marineland Under Scrutiny for Poor Animal Care

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Allegations are that sea animals are not being well-cared for at this Niagara Falls resort.

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Empire State Building Shooter Was A Birder

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Or so says the Daily News.

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Honduras? An Interview with Robert Gallardo

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I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. Robert was briefly a Beat Writer on 10,000 Birds and he has also contributed a guest post. He is a great birder and has found over thirty new species in Honduras since he moved there in 1993. He is also a nice guy, a dedicated conservationist, and an ambitious project manager.

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The return of the Banded Lapwing

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Last October we had a rare visitor to Broome in the form of a Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor. It spent its visit at the Golf Course with the Masked Lapwings Vanellus miles and the previous visit by the species had been in February 2008 and prior to that September 2005. Well, we then thought to ourselves that we would not see one again until 2014.

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Happy National Dog Day!

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It’s National Dog Day! Around our house every day is dog day though, but it’s still nice to have a special day to spoil the furry ones a little bit more than usual.

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