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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. that’s three birds). This is a book that requires attention.

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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At Dunnet Head, we got to see a couple of Atlantic Puffins, a few Razorbills, some Guillemots and gulls. Hundreds of Black-headed Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls , Mew Gulls , and Fulmars , thousands of Razorbills , 60-70 Puffins , and literally tens of thousands of Guillemots. The show stopper was his Eagle-owl.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Pacific Screech-Owl – Megascops cooperi. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher – Chloroceryle inda.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Indian Scops-Owl – Otus bakkamoena. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Tropical Screech-Owl – Megascops choliba.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right.

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Collaborative List – November 2018

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Indian Scops-Owl – Otus bakkamoena. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Tropical Screech-Owl – Megascops choliba.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. European Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. Bicolored Hawk – Accipiter bicolor. 25 Jul 2018.

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