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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Birdwatching recently reported a paid distribution of about 12,000, and Bird Watcher’s Digest states that its printed magazine “reaches” 25,000 subscribers.

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The Cry of the Curlew

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Her long beak indicates that she is a female An email to Tony Cross of the Mid Wales Ringing Group brought a speedy reply. A quick check on the internet revealed that there was an on-going colour ringing project taking place in Wales, and it seemed most likely that this was where my bird had been ringed.

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What do we do about trophy ("sport") hunting?

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Popular hunting magazines make animal rights groups like they're the bad guys. They claim to be "conservationists" even though we all know natural selection plays its role in the wild. It seems both political parties do nothing for animals. I've gotten to the point where I don't even vote anymore.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. The photographs, many by the author, are credited at the end of the book.

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Birding Ruili, Yunnan

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After reading a glossy celebrity paper – maybe about an Oscar celebration – the eBird reviewer gets back to writing short descriptions of birds but still has the vocabulary of the magazine in his or her head.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

10,000 Birds

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Receiving Birding magazine is a benefit of being an ABA member, so its circulation numbers are the same as ABA membership. million birders.

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Shut up, Zebra Finch, you’re drunk

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The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5% Unless you’re a scientist who studied just that very thing and recently reported your results in PLOS One.

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