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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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For example, Red-bellied Woodpeckers began their colonization “without warning” on western Long Island in mid-May 1961, expanded “the invasion” in spring 1962, and then incurred a “second invasion” in spring 1969 (p. ” I’m down as the observer of a White Pelican at the Whitestone Bridge on Dec.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus. In my native Serbia, pelicans are only vagrants, although in the under-birded southeast, they may be more common than we think.

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