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Birding Kabul, Afghanistan

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I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.

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Where to Find Me at the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival

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First, from 8 AM until noon will be the “Shorebird Workshop for Advanced Birders” which will be led by Kevin Karlson, a co-author of The Shorebird Guide. That means, by logical progression, that in January the trip I am on will experience an actual sighting of a Black Rail !

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Hidden Birds and the Birders Who Find Them

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While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. Seeing as the digiscoping trip was wrapping up, some of us decided to head over to check out the sparrows.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. This may make taxonomic fanatics faint, but it is useful for learning how to differentiate amongst birds that look alike but really aren’t, like sparrows and longspurs, hummingbirds and swifts.

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An Interview with Richard Fried – the New York State Big Year Record Holder

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I read as much as I could, accumulating a fairly large library of field guides and ornithology texts, listened to recorded songs, and participated in a number of workshops in Cape May. The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden. In the three years before my big year I birded in eight states, Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Japan.

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