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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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The Little Big Year – Week 43: Last minute trip to Texas

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Well, that’s just not really our style, so at the very last minute, we rented a high gas mileage car, thru a few things in a cooler, and our birding gear and headed for south Texas. We left Tucson on Monday, and drove to Alpine, Texas for our first night. That lovely little owl represented bird number 34 for the run thru Texas!

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Fall Hawk Migration Hotspots

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Peregrine Falcon. Thanks to the Hawk Migration Association of North America for their efforts in conservation, research, migration counts, data, resources, and hundreds of other small and large efforts “to promote and conduct studies of the migratory patterns and behavior of diurnal birds of prey.”. Fall count to date: 1,402.

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Rarities at the South Florida Bird Observatory

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The Florida Keys Hawk-watch broke the world record for number of Peregrine Falcons recorded in a single day – a stunning 651 birds! This research station is located on Key Biscayne and is providing interesting data on migration over the eastern Florida coast, an area with high human population density.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. The book is designed with quick searching and researching in mind, with colored blocks indicating bird family in upper right and left corners, common bird names in large, bold print, and a highly readable font.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” Regardless of whether you think field guide sequences should or should not reflect current evolutionary sequence, it’s comforting and easy to find falcons next to hawks, vireos next to warblers. of Texas Press, 2004).

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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From North Carolina south to Texas, just under half of beaches are developed. Listing will indirectly enhance national and international cooperation and coordination of conservation efforts, enhance research programs, and encourage the development of conservation measures that could help slow habitat loss and population declines.