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The Traveling Birder

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But Northern Cardinal, Catbird, and White-throated Sparrow do not appear until the 270s, during a visit to Central Park while on business trip to New York City. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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This material is not new to breeding bird surveys or experienced birders, but I found the codes and the highly specific details of the code descriptions quite interesting. of New Mexico Press, 2005). The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (Univ.

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A great week for Wood-Warblers

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We did however see a Yellow-rumped Warbler at Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico on 16th November 1989 and a Townsend’s Warbler at Big Sur, California on 3rd December 1989. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.