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Electric falcon

10,000 Birds

'Sitting in a car parked by the roadside, I am observing a distant electricity pylon. It is barely visible, but on it there seems to be an endangered Saker Falcon. March 2007. Gentle March sun, bare oak branches, short grass, and bird migration in full swing. M. and I are following deeply cut tire tracks along a meadow and, despite the drought, we encounter a puddle.

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Cute but Caught: America’s Cutest & Messiest Pets Photo Contest

4 The Love Of Animals

'We know our pets can be cute, and we know that they can be messy! Well, here is your chance to show off your pet being BOTH! Pruven™ is holding the Cute but Caught: America’s Cutest & Messiest Pets Photo Contest , and the grand prize is $3,000! That could clean up a lot of messes! May 29 – July 14: View entries and/or submit one of your own. Up to 5 photos can be submitted.

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The Birds of Eigg by John Chester

10,000 Birds

'Besides birding, I have another hobby that I like to indulge when I travel: seeking out books from small regional presses. Nearly every town with a souvenir shop has a book or two about the local ghost stories, true crimes, battlefields, and the like. Often they lack polish but make it up in character, being labors of love by the same sort of people who run one-room Historical Societies.

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Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

10,000 Birds

'In the words of a Magic 8-Ball , “Outlook not so good.” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months ago that due to extreme weather conditions, Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds were washing up on the shores of Great Britain. (That’s his snapshot of a victim above.). Now, some scientists have started expressing concerns about the North American population of the birds , which is concentrated along the coasts of Maine and Canada.

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17-Year Cicadas and a Mississippi Kite in Staten Island

10,000 Birds

'Back in 1979 New York State birders were pleased with the first record of Mississippi Kites in the state when two visited Staten Island and spent nearly two weeks fattening up on the periodical cicadas that emerged in great numbers that year. At least one astute Staten Island birder, Seth Wollney, predicted that this year’s cicada emergence, 34 years after the first state record of Mississippi Kite , might lead to another visitation by the fabulous southern raptors.

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“The Friskies” is back!

4 The Love Of Animals

'Calling all cat video creators: “The Friskies” is back. It’s time to capture your cat’s funniest or most adventurous moment and enter “ The Friskies ” for your opportunity to win a $5,000 cash prize and a custom-made gold plated Friskies Catuette, and take part in the live Award Show in New York City this fall. The Call for Entries is open now through July 15, 2013.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Birding Superstars?

10,000 Birds

'Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? That’s the question asked by this very detailed and thoughtful post to the ABA blog. It quotes a number of prominent birders (including our very own Julie Zickefoose) weighing in on why there are plenty of women who bird, but few who rise to the highest echelons of birding (whether you take that to mean leadership in birding organizations or just plain listing).

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

10,000 Birds

'Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. These relics of times gone by now cling to a precarious existence on the sheer cliffs of Ethiopia’s mountains, from which each morning they materialize, to forage on nearby moorlands, before disappearing down the precipices in the evening.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of June 2013?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies, but don’t forget to look out below… excellent advice when visiting Australia’s Blue Mountains ! As if fatherhood isn’t rewarding enough, we lucky paternal units enjoy high honors during the third weekend in June. Whether you fathers out there celebrate the day surrounded by proud progeny or as far from your offspring as you can get, make the most of your dad’s day!

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American Oystercatcher War in the Rockaways

10,000 Birds

'The barrier beach neighborhood in eastern Queens is known as the Rockaways and the far eastern part is known as the Far Rockaways. Though the names might not be very original they are very nice to visit on a sunny June day, especially when you place your visit just to the east of the large Least Tern colony which also features breeding Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of June 2013)

10,000 Birds

'How are seasons like species? In both instances, we can have trouble telling where one ends and the other begins. We’re in the midst of a shoulder season right now, which can be almost as much fun as finding a cool hybrid or intergrade bird in the wild. The bird I was happiest to see this weekend was Eastern Kingbird , a flycatcher that screams summer to me (awesome photo above by Carlos Sanchez ).

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Grey-headed Robins

10,000 Birds

'The Grey-headed Robin of Australia is not a robin as Americans would know one (thinking, inexplicably, that a thrush is a robin), nor is it a robin as an European would understand it either. It is, instead, a member of the Petroicidae, the Australasian robins, a family mostly found in New Guinea and Australia but also reaching here in New Zealand and as far across the Pacific as Fiji.

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New Holland Honeyeater

10,000 Birds

'The main flow of the North American wood warbler migration has passed me by again and I have had to visit the far reaches of the globe to get my share of the colours of May. The New Holland Honeyeater , Phylidonyris novaehollandiae , is a sedentary bird so can be seen in its black, white and yellow, year round within its range. The nominate, was described from southeastern Australia.

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Autumn birding in the Blue Mountains

10,000 Birds

'Our trip to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in autumn was planned at short notice and we had not actually anticipated seeing a Rock Warbler. We had known it would be cold, especially compared to our home town of Broome and we knew we would have the opportunity to experience the changing leaves and hopefully some good waterfalls. Of course we were also interested in new birds, but we had not gone looking for anything in particular.

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