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Are You Going to the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

10,000 Birds

That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Florida is a great place to bird in January because in addition to the year-round species there are a host of birds that winter in the relatively balmy climate that Florida has in winter. Find at least one life bird.

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Big Years: towards a fair competition ?

10,000 Birds

Now, one may simply state that these are the disadvantages birders have to live with on a daily basis, and if a birder doesn’t like it, they should just take up conducting electrophysical experiments in controlled laboratory conditions as a hobby instead. Which is fair enough.

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On Ducks and Geese

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It wasn't much--clusters of mushroom-like townhouses that are ubiquitous in Florida--but it was on a lake. Now I have the drama of the feral cats and of course the greyhounds. And a dead end. So there was no traffic, no noise, and each day we awoke to the drama of the creatures who lived right outside our door.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) And then there were the Flamingos.