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Hawks At A Distance: A Timely Classic

10,000 Birds

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. We are certainly rich in raptor identification and natural history books.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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Lake Bindegolly National Park

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It appeared that Lake Bindegolly National Park could also offer us the same birding opportunities if there was water present. There was also evidence of the damage that feral pigs can do all along the trail and along the water’s edge and we soon came across a small group of them. Feral pigs. Turtle shell. Outback flies!

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Road birding in New Zealand

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Clearly this is not a particularly good idea, but there are also situations where a birder may be a passenger, and this presents opportunities for a kind of speed-birding, where a trip of a few hours can give you a hasty introduction to an area’s birds. Feral Turkey are also quite common.

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Hawks At A Distance: A Field Guide Review

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Sure, they’re beautiful and powerful, a reminder of the feral freedom of the skies. ” I’m curious about your experiences with these guides or other hawk books (or apps) in the field. I confess, I don’t always love hawks. This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection.

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Collaborative List ? May 2020

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Thus the “new normal” list, sanitized and with 6-foot spacing is presented below for your catalogue-reading pleasure. You may notice a few non-commital “sp” entries and/or a few domestic/feral/hybrid forms. Trust me on this. The total for the year has been pushed to 1478 , whilst the life list has reached 4009.

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