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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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Because, although these flycatcher groups don’t have the sexy, challenging reputation of Empidonax flycatchers, they can be confusing–ask any East coast birder trying to figure out if a vagrant bird with worn tail feathers is a Western Kingbird or a Cassin’s Kingbird.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Thus, its listing has been contested by groups advocating more development. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The second thing to note is that this is an excellent and courageous book that tackles a group of birds whose field identification has stumped the most skilled birders. The book expands field guide boundaries with its narrow focus on two genera (groups) with a bonus Tufted Flycatcher thrown in for good measure.

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Three Interesting Things

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Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. Imagine yourself on board a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York City, an eight-hour journey that begins at bedtime and ends at breakfast. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

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Founded in 1997, it has become one of the largest animal rescue groups in Los Angeles. Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. WHEN: Saturday, September 11th, 2010 WHERE: The Skirball Cultural Center, Ahmanson Hall, Los Angeles.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. … Conservation Audubon endangered species Extinction Week longspurs science' The time to act is now.

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