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Going Medieval: Waterfowling the Two Towers of Serbia

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A Black Redstart on the fishing cottage rooftop, Mistle Thrush in a distant tree, European Greenfinch and the Eurasian Siskin right in front of us. There was a Black Woodpecker , twice, and showing really well, European Robin posing in the bush by the roadside and several Water Pipits at the water’s edge.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We A nestling Eastern Screech Owl they fed nothing but fish,” wrote Eileen Hagerman. “I I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” “Probably because people see so many Red-tails taking down pigs.”. “At

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Of Whiskey Jacks and Water Ouzels

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Also known as Meat-bird, Moosebird, and Lumberjack. Clark’s Nutcracker : On the other hand, the folk vernacular can be surprisingly insightful about taxonomy and even convergent evolution, as when people call this non-standard corvid a Woodpecker Crow. photos courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds. The Herbst touch receptors found in bills can also be found in the tongues of many birds and this may aid birds like hummingbirds and woodpeckers that use their tongues extensively in foraging.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Harper contributed artwork to 120 issues of Ford Times, illustrating articles on topics ranging from travel to fish to recipes. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”