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Unintended Consequences: Bird-Friendly Yards and Bird Deaths

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You won’t find Painted Buntings in Canada—Corey photographed these in Florida, where they are common feeder birds. These findings, published in The Condor , draw from citizen science efforts coordinated by scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment Canada. This presents a conundrum for bird lovers, the authors admit.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. The weeks leading up to spring break had been a whirlwind, and the days before the trip mostly spent driving and exploring Florida.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

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He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. I would like to add Badbirdz Reloaded , a companion site on Florida migration, run by Angel and Mariel Abreu. Lovitch takes the practice of birding ten steps beyond.

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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

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This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology and Chief Curator of Manuscripts at The Huntington Library in California.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Are you still rehabbing birds?

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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Family–A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

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I’ve happily photographed turtles and tortoises on my travels, from softshell turtles laying in the mud in Florida to giant tortoises basking in the sun in the Galapagos. Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. On the positive side, authors Jeffrey E. Geological Survey.

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