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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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Can you use a drone to get footage of snowy owls in cornfields? If you have a drone and fly it over a field and it finds a Short-eared Owl that you didn’t know was there and you only saw it after you uploaded your video…does it count on your list? How close is too close?

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What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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So far as I can determine the swan was not officially granted status as the national bird of Denmark by law but by a popular vote held by either Danish Television or Denmark Radio. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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A “Thank You” is All You Need

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By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. Birders are utterly suspicious characters. But, seen from the opposite angle, I do not look spylike, more like – a policeman! Bee-eaters spend a lot of time on the wing, balancing in the wind before they enter their holes.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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Rehabilitators also cooperate with law enforcement on illegal activity, and even monitor emerging diseases in avian species. You will know that bird died from applied pesticides, or see the owl that was hit by a car and realize this was a human-caused consequence. Is that individual bird vital to the world as a whole?

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Apparently in the past some birders and photographers had been not so polite in their behavior when a Northern Hawk Owl had been in the vicinity, and when this bird showed up the local law enforcement did not want it made public.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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