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The Gas Station Bird

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This may seem like government agency hair-splitting, but the calls needed to be made not to the wildlife division of the wildlife agency, but to the exotic species division of the wildlife agency. The bird is a captive-bred Peregrine/Gyrfalcon hybrid owned by people with an Exotic Species Permit.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of April 2019)

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Corey had most of the morning on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to bird and he made the most of it, adding over twenty species to his year list for Queens and just generally enjoying spring migration. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of May 2014)

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Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2014)

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Though Corey managed to see or hear 135 species this weekend including such good birds as Yellow-bellied Flycatcher , Piping Plover , Yellow-billed Cuckoo , Kentucky Warbler , Bay-breasted Warbler , and a host of others, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a commonly seen bird, albeit a very cooperative one. Birding best bird weekend'

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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The Dry Tortugas – off the Bucket-list

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Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Day-trips to the Dry Tortugas are of course possible but the best way to experience the islands is on an extended 3-day guided tour. That means I used to be very young. Almost infantile.

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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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The prospect of identifying a certain number of species in a given amount of time pushes us to pay more attention to birds no matter what the circumstances (although I suggest keeping the exclamations about species identifications to yourself during such solemn situations as funerals, graduations, and watching episodes of The Sopranos).