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Who belongs in the Evening Grosbeak’s family tree?

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Ourselves, for instance; just consider how many sweet or gritty stories you’ve seen about Olympic athletes’ family backgrounds over the last few weeks. We’re going to look at its family tree today, at where it fits in the grand avian assemblage, at what makes it at once unique yet not so alone after all. But not all.

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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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Then there were a few Hawfinches and two young Black Storks , Little Bittern , Great White Egret , Glossy Ibis , Common Kingfisher , Syrian Woodpecker , Peregrine Falcon , Red-backed Shrike , Lesser Grey Shrike , Collared Flycatcher and a family of Western Yellow Wagtails.

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what made these prints?

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hi guys my family and i live in idaho and recently it snowed. we have some stray cats that we feed and take care of, when we came out to give them breakfast we noticed their prints and something else’s. any idea what these bigger prints might be or belong to? submitted by /u/MoonChild2099 [link] [comments]

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Nanhui, Shanghai in late autumn

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On the other hand, it seems there is a better chance of getting some strays and really rare birds, such as the Ryukyu Minivet described in my last post. While Long-tailed Shrikes are the second hand car dealers of the Nanhui bird world, some of the other members of the shrike family are a bit more subtle. Do you remember thumb cinemas?

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A Most Unexpected Encounter

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Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. The addition of a family of Least Grebes was a nice touch. Having seen them in Europe, I knew it was a Merganser. But which one? Hooded Mergansers should not go further south than Texas.)

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Golden-crowned Warbler

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It belongs to the Parulidae family, but along with the rest of the Basileuterus genus is non-migratory. rufifrons occasionally strays to southern Texas or Arizona, but on the whole, they are seldom seen north of the border. The Rufous-capped Warbler, B.

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

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From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth.