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Birding According to ChatGPT, Part II

10,000 Birds

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. The concept of a big year gained significant attention through books, such as “The Big Year” by Mark Obmascik, which chronicled the experiences of birders participating in competitive big years.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

Shelves of feeders to choose from, ranging from inexpensive tubes to porcelain sculptures; bags and barrels of shelled and unshelled seed, including something called variously thistle, nyjer or niger; guidelines on when, how, where to do the actual feeding. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years. In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

10,000 Birds

These light blue boxes paint an overall view of the group as a whole and articulate guidelines for differentiating species within the group. For me, using T he New Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Western Region was a happy experience. Vagrants and accidentals need to be researched in the parent volume.

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