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Firebirds and the Future

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Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think about science reporting on this vast Internet of ours. When you receive a link to an article in the Daily Mail , for instance, your thoughts do not immediately leap to “my god, a ground-breaking, perhaps even mind-blowing advance in the study of avian tool use!” And when your attempts to follow it up lead back to the coyly-named IFLScience.com , one is inclined to mutter darkly about clickbait and millenials and how you used to have to

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The Rollin’ Bones: Puppy Love

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No need to feel blue this Valentine’s Day! To help singletons while they are waiting for “the one”, the Co-op Insurance in conjunction with The Rollin Bones have shot a new video called Puppy Love! Could this be any more … Continue reading → The post The Rollin’ Bones: Puppy Love appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Great Bittern

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In answer to the oft-asked question, “What is your favourite bird”, I can usually only narrow it down to three families; Rails, Cuckoos and Owls. To that three, I would add a fourth, if only they really existed. Bitterns are birds of fable. Existing photographs are grainy and out of focus. Like all good Bigfoot or Yeti pictures, distance is the key.

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Mountain Plover at the Shore

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For every state vagrant that shows up at a feeder or in a public park, there seems to be one that turns up in a logistically impossible part of the state. North Carolina is perhaps unfortunate to have a lot of such places. Along our sizeable coastline there are a great many islands that are more or less impossible to reach unless you have a boat and an Off-Road Vehicle on the other side.

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Brown Noddies: Brave Little Terns

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The noddies form their own little subgroup within the terns, a small tropical group (how related they are to each other I am unsure) that will be familiar to anyone birding on tropical islands, especially those far from continents. The name of these terns comes from their utter fearlessness on their breeding grounds, which was sadly taken for foolhardiness.

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My Great Backyard Bird County on the Florida Panhandle

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There is no doubt in my mind that the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun t (GBBC) is the most impressive citizen science endeavor in the world. Run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Audubon, and Canada’s Bird Studies, the GBBC rallies global birders to go out and bird, submitting checklists of their sightings. This year the event was even preceded by an article in the New York Times.

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Did humans kill off one of the last dinosaurs, er, giant birds?

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Genyornis newtoni , weighted about 500 pounds and stood seven feet tall. It was a bird, and this is where the whole bird-dinosaur thing gets real. This is one of several giant birds that went extinct fairly recently, and in many cases, humans as suspected. Genyornis newtoni lived in Australia, and recent research suggests that humans may have played a role in the extinction of this dinosaur laughingly called a bird, about 40,000 years ago.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2016)

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Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Did you see any birds that you particularly loved this weekend? Here in New York City we suffered through our coldest period of the winter with wind chill values dipping well below zero degrees Fahrenheit. That coupled with my preparations for a departure for Puerto Rico late on Sunday means that I didn’t get much birding done.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2016?

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Saint Augustine famously asserted, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” Sometimes I think the world is a field guide. Only through travel can you truly appreciate all the plates! I’m still in Israel, planning to cap off our adventure by exploring the Dead Sea and some live birds. Corey will be returning from Puerto Rico and may need several days to re-acclimate to New York winter conditions.

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Trump or Cruz? Clinton or Sanders? NOA! Vote for me!

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Yes, none of the above. Vote for me! But what do I stand for? What do I want to deliver? My agenda is to help to make the Ross Sea an international marine protected area. This is WHY. And I do need YOUR VOTE for that. But am I qualified for the job? What experience do I have to confirm my qualifications? E.g., up to 10 percent of the European population of Pygmy Cormorants overwinters in Belgrade , Serbia.

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