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IATB Needs More Jays

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The blogger sitting on a post about Blue Jay s hoarding acorns or Scrub Jay s putzing around in family groups. You with the photos of gorgeous Green Jay s or unusual Unicolored Jay s or enigmatic Eurasian Jay s (see what I was doing there?). Why haven’t you submitted your stuff to I and the Bird yet?

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Birds definitely need our help when it comes to habitat preservation, but attracting hoards of birds is not the way. She started feeding the ducks and geese that used the open water in the 1980s.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

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Pasquier cites study after study, often jumping from one continent to another, from one bird family to a totally different group, relying on a bibliography of over 660 studies to lay out the variable, diverse behaviors birds employ.

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