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What’s the Next ABA-Countable Exotic?

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Outside of Florida, there are also growing populations in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Houston. With its proven track record of adapting and spreading in areas with cold winters such as Germany and England, it might even be able to colonize large portions of the southern United States.

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Don’t Mess with the Great Texas Birding Classic

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Imagine then, if you dare, a series of Big Sits, Big Days, and Big Weeks set in some of the most specialized and biodiverse ecosystems in the birdiest of all the United States. What separates the GTBC from other events, apart from a suite of special birds found nowhere else in the United States, is how funds are acquired and disbursed.

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

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It does get confusing, though, because the Species Account says that it is “unlikely to be confused with any other flycatcher in the United States” (p.51). Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.