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Where have they gone?

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The web site explains best what it’s all about: “Gulls flock together to roost communally on lakes, reservoirs and estuaries, in groups that can reach the thousands. According to the website “ The Big Farmland Bird Count is an annual event that encourages farmers and land managers to record the bird species and numbers on their farms.

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Changing Bird Names (Again)

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” The event was open to everyone , including those not members of the AOS, and it was recorded and placed on the group’s website and on YouTube. As I have previously written about this topic , I virtually “attended” the event. One of the stated goals was to “understand diverse perspectives.”

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? In September 2015 a group of eight intrepid bird watchers linked up with the African Wildlife Foundation and arranged for a 10-day stay in Yemi [DRC].

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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Participate in the Rainforest Biodiversity Group’s annual bird-a-thon. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Pied Oystercatcher family starts to disperse

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I mentioned last week t hat the large Pied Oystercatcher family that had successfully raised three chicks this year for the first time may soon become a smaller family group. They were wandering further apart and I knew that it would not be long before the family group became smaller. SUNDAY EVENING UPDATE-Broome Time!

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Support Project SNOWstorm!

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So they are raising money to buy more. To that end they are attaching lightweight tracking devices to Snowy Owls so we can learn what individual owls are doing. That is where YOU come in! The problem Project SNOWstorm has is that the transmitting devices used to track the owls cost $3,000 each. That is not cheap.

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