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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. Trust me, the species name makes sense for the male, though not for the female. It is also classified as Near Threatened.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. It is part of a publishing trend to make scientific information easily available, effortless to read and process, primarily through the use of stunning visual material to engage our eyes and spike our interest.

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On Changes in What Americans Are Attending To

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It's humbling to experience all of this for the first time in my nearly 43 years, from the showering in the morning and donning fancy clothes and make up, to commuting with thousands of my closest friends, to having to hire people to walk my dogs and spend time with them because I'm not home during the day.

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

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This page also offers a table of the number of blocks for which there is possible, probably, and confirmed breeding in the first and second atlases, and, for some birds, a chart of Breeding Bird Survey Trend, based on 40 years of breeding bird survey data. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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” Species descriptions include physical features; distribution; population and population trends; locations of main populations; breeding; food; threats; impact of climate change; migration where applicable; Red List status (vulnerable, near threatened, etc.). Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. Not this one though.

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