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Urban Birding in San Diego

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There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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Urban Renewal: Is It Safer for Songbirds in the City?

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This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. Further, the researchers add, just as cuckoos (like the Common Cuckoo above photographed by Redgannet) display a tendency toward skittishness around humans, so too do songbird predators such as raptors.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Peregrine Falcon nests. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. Open Jarvis et al.’s Hackett et al.

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Backyard Beneficiaries

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Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. In a couple weeks I’ll be keeping my ears alert for the flight calls of incoming shorebirds, they shall definitely be followed by a Peregrine Falcon. I do miss going out – but I’m not sure how much!

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). Do they have families too and do they take care of them? How are they different?

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