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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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I’m to the point that I wish all the Snowy Owls in the US this winter would head back north. There’s been some confusing info because Project SNOWStorm also captured and put a transmitter on a first winter female Snowy Owl around the same time in the same area. As Tracey Ullman said at the end of her show, “Go home!

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. As shown by the photo, below, of McMullan and Merlin, his Eurasian Eagle Owl friend, McMullan is a rough-hewn 6’4” foot bear of a man; he describes himself as resembling a character from the World Wrestling Federation.

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua. Scarlet Macaw.

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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

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There are several books on feathers that also include some footprints of birds, maybe owl pellets. This is very bad news for a group that is largely nocturnal and has adapted to a secretive lifestyle, and is thus best detected by its tracks and signs.

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

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though.

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