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Three Amazing Things

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But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. There may be a new strain not before seen (still looking for verification of that) and there are reasons to believe, the experts say, that this winter could see a spike in bird to human transmission. ” GannetCam.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. Big Egg Marsh. Black-thighed Grosbeak – Pheucticus tibialis. Cartagos 2. 14 May 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. Big Egg Marsh. Caspian Gull – Larus cachinnans. Reva–Reva Lake (IBA podru?je e Save u Dunav).

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. Silvery-fronted Tapaculo – Scytalopus argentifrons. Los Cartagos. 14 May 2016. Sandy Hook.

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Combined Beats’ List – July 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides. Big Egg Marsh. Caspian Gull – Larus cachinnans. Reva–Reva Lake (IBA podru?je e Save u Dunav).

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