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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

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Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. Bird researchers are good people! I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. Bird researchers are good people! I even wrote not one but two posts about birdfeeder patents.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2017)

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I counted birds not at my own feeders but at those of my mother-in-law, where my best sighting was a single Northern Raven that croaked back and forth for hours in the unexpectedly warm winter sun. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Clare (and Grant!) How cool is that?

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The warbler is on the road to being delisted from the Endangered Species List.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. There is also text, distribution maps, a dark red bar “warning” about similar looking rare species, and conservation symbols. So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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