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Urban Birding in San Diego

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San Diego has a lot going for it. 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 relationship with San Diego has evolved since becoming a birder.

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Laughing at you, not with you

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Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. This post shows some of them.

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The Power of Pets

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Co-hosted by local YMCAs nationwide, the events will feature a two- to three-kilometer community dog walk, as well as healthy and fun activities for the whole family. San Diego; Austin, Texas; Miami; and Portland, Ore. Taking your dog for a walk is an easy, fun and affordable way to get the entire family moving.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

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Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Once gregarious and outgoing, she withdrew from her family and friends, from everyone except her pet cats. Would they help?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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For example, take the Mississippi Kite (above), photographed at the Dairy Mart Ponds in Tijuana River Valley, between San Diego and the Mexican border. Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. Let’s get to it then. 1) Rare bird reporting has come a long way.

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