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The Numbers Game

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That is because we receive so many extra species from up north, which can double the number of potential species in many of our most important avian families: Ducks, Hummingbirds, Wood Warblers, New World Sparrows, Tyrant Flycatchers, and many others. Do you remember what I said about some species loving dense and dark woods?

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Birds of a Feather – A Fun, Family-Friendly Card Game

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I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. But the idea still intrigued me and the thought of a card game that might further indoctrinate the five-year-old tyrant of our house, Desi, into birding seemed worth exploring. .” A couple of comments about the game as it relates to birds.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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Plugging Kids Into Birding

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By age 2 she could identify over 10 species of birds in our Johannesburg, South Africa, yard by call alone. Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. GAMES AND APPS. What kid does not love games?

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

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True, there is what looks like a dove sitting with a fox in silhouette on the Rare Vos label, and in 2015, Ommegang released a dark saison called Three-Eyed Raven as part of its licensing partnership with the hugely popular HBO series Game of Thrones. alcohol by volume – as a welcome return to the style’s more temperate heritage.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. 9) Birdfinding.

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