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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience

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Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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What the rings reveal

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I’d love to have known where and when the Great Spotted Woodpecker in my photograph below was ringed, but though the ring is clearly visible, the number stamped on it isn’t. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive.

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

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Evidence notwithstanding, she was not credited with the sighting due to the earlier declaration of extinction, but she so strongly maintained she’d witnessed the close proximity of a male passenger that she wrote an essay called “The Last Passenger Pigeon” in which she described her experience.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. So you can imagine our disappointment when we crawled out of the car after our trip to find out that Mike was in fact relaxing in the warm kitchen and had no idea where the woodpecker was! Why is that awesome?

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White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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The Nuttall’s Woodpecker Catching Condors Brown Pelicans in La Jolla Birds of Bolsa Chica The Western Scrub-Jay, A Bright Corvid In Many Respects.Or A First Christmas Bird Count Experience » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Get yours today! Beautiful bird.

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Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club

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These Blasts From The Past Lakes, lightning, locusts and lizards Great Birding Sites From Great Birding Bloggers Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Birding Kuwait The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.

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Duck Migration

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Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience.

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