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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of April 2018)

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If the cold weather across much of the United States is any indication than T.S. Eliot was correct when he stated that “April is the cruellest month.” 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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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. No lemmings left in the north?

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The Traveling Birder

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To keep things relatively close to home and reasonably-priced, I have limited myself to birding in the United States, creating my own birding area consisting of all 50 states and the U.S. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. A pelagic out of Hatteras, North Carolina , the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio , and trip to Puerto Rico stand out as well. Since virtually all of my birding to the United States, that’s the map I look at most. John and St.

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Junco Mashup

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The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.

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In defense of county listing

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The search for the next new bird is that much more fulfilling when you’re limited to the smallest of the arbitrary political boundaries in the United States, and the search for those birds necessitates a broad working knowledge of the county of the sort that can only be attained through experience. State tick!

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