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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Homework assignment: Is the bird in this video a male or a female? The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection. And there is a video here. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos. Strangely, there do not seem to be many papers on this species.

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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. Did the model work?

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Birdwatching Laguna de los Pozuelos – Trip Report

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It was declared a National Park (Monumento Natural) in 1981 to protect the nesting of up to 25,000 flamingos and many other water-foul and birds that depend on this fragile ecosystem, the Puna. It was about 7:30 am and there was no sign of human life at the office so we decided to drive further toward the next gps point.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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The Marvelous Spatuletail as it appears in a video about The Glitter in the Green. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.