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Bird of the Year?

10,000 Birds

I experienced this first hand while attending last year’s CBC , but because I’m motivated by feelings I didn’t consider this a true experience. After all, it was a straightforward procedure: drive to the mangrove swamps, play the call, photograph the bird, leave. Which brings me to the happenings of yesterday morning.

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Photography and Birding

10,000 Birds

My interest in photography started at age 17 and now it has become a very important part of enjoying and improving my birding experience. While our binoculars and scopes have limited magnification, the use of software allows us to magnify to any extent. Magnification.- This is a fantastic feature of digital photography.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

10,000 Birds

The Nature Blog Network was, at its heart, a community meant to promote this very personal, very beautiful commitment so many of us have made to sharing our experiences of the natural world. But we had hundreds of enrollments within weeks and new bloggers joining our network every single week from our inauguration until just recently.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Surrendering to eBird

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For many years now, I’ve resisted every form of listing software available, choosing instead to maintain my world and ABA life lists on a simple Excel spreadsheet. In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be. I blame Nate Swick. But Nate is an eBird fanatic.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!).

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Publish Your Own AR Book or Magazine

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In my experience, what holds back most authors from self-publishing is one word: ego. But if you have something to say that you'd like the world to hear sooner rather than later, and you have an Internet connection and maybe some layout software, you don't need much money to get started creating your own books and magazines.

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The Warbler Guide: A Book Review by a Warbler-challenged Birder

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The videos and talks have wet our appetites for a book that promises to be visually exciting and fun to use, designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. And, I hope that we never have to experience a world without warblers. Using sonograms is not new. 50 maps.