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GARBO TALKS!

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And now, researchers from Japan, Germany and Sweden confirmed what I knew all the time, like if I needed them to tell me so. They explained that Japanese Great T**s “experience a number of threats, and in response to predators, they give a variety of different calls. Japanese Great Tit, credit: Toshitaka Suzuki.

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What the rings reveal

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Though these gulls nest commonly in the British Isles, in the autumn great numbers move across to Britain from nesting grounds in Finland, Sweden and the Baltic states, so it seems most likely that 2BAT was a gull that had been bred in Lithuania, and that it returned to nest there every spring.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth. Historical Archaeology, Vol.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

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For example, in the section on the advantages of single-species flocking behavior, we learn about Eurasian Hazel Grouse in Sweden and Siberia, then Black-capped Chickadees in Ithaca, New York, and then Eastern Kingbirds in Peru and Panama. Because, whether our future winters are warmer or colder, we want to survive them with our birds.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)

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If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Kah Wai Lin Mar 14th, 2011 at 3:26 am White-throated dipper in Nyfors waterfall of Sweden. Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:26 pm Corey, I am jealous of your Red-breasted Merganser experience at JBWR and the flight shots. Get yours today!

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

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