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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2016)

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Basically, he’s too busy birding from Colorado to Idaho to write about birding! The best way to appreciate mundane species is through a new filter. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S.

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

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When a species as prolific as the passenger pigeon once was ultimately expires, and promptly so on March 24, 1900, I’m apt to consider the rare but exceptional future sighting as a possibility, simply because I like to believe birds, or other creatures for that matter, don’t necessarily die within our specific time frames.

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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

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Indeed, can you truly experience the wonder of nature from the confines of a vehicle? This Swainson’s Hawk was photographed above a gas station in Idaho. This is what we have to remember: - Many species are easier to observe at close range from a vehicle than on foot. - The weight of my argument crushes all others.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Betty’s Bay was also a great place to see all of South Africa’s cormorant species, including the endangered Bank Cormorant.

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Birding’s Biggest Dips

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All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. For those that might not fully comprehend, the birding slang-term to “dip” or to “dip out on” a bird is to go looking for a particular species and not find it. Anita still makes impolite noises when the name of this species comes up.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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The USVI are smaller and have fewer habitats and, as a result, fewer bird species. There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. Herbert Rafaelle includes 284 species in his field guide , which covers both territories.) Postal Service.