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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? True to form, the United States Department of Agriculture seems less concerned about the health or status of Yellow Bitterns and more about managing the birds on Guam to minimize threats to aviation safety.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. White article on bird feeding stations.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Tyrannosaurus rex didn’t exist yet. Jarvis et al.

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