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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.

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University of Florida Must Relinguish Primate Records

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An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. Sikes received more than a dozen calls, including a death threat that UF police are investigating. This is good news, at least in my opinion.

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What’s in a Name: Limpkin

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A friend was in Florida, and as people in Florida are wont to do, he taunted me with pictures of some good birds that I am not currently looking at. The investigation continues. In this case, it was especially cruel because he posted a Limpkin , a bird I have never looked at. Steal his girlfriend? Poop on his hat?

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Take Action: Investigate the troubling payments that threaten the Florida panther

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Logan, reviewed previously on this site by Carrie.).

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Returning to St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

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A raccoon investigates crabs on the mud flats. Marks, which covers 68,000 acres in Florida. Deer wade into the shallows to munch on marsh grass, trailing fawns behind them. And I never forget to look for alligators. The best part? Summer birding isn’t the best season here at St.

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This Week in Bird News: Junk Food Junkies, Snacks on a String, and More

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This Bald Eagle, photographed by Corey, was after Blue-winged Teal in Florida, not Atlantic Puffins in Maine. To wit: In an experiment informally called the “Cheetos Challenge,” a scientist investigated whether magpies or crows would be quicker to develop a taste for Cheetos—and which birds would ultimately steal them from the others.