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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Birding Iceland on the Fly

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We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property. The hotel owner told us that visiting them in the evening had the best showing of puffins as they returned to the cliffs from the sea. Finally, we arrived at the Hotel Latrabjarg to check in.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

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Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”. I took in a Warrior Queen Red-tailed Hawk hit by car (WQ RTHA HBC) who awed me with her strength and ferocity, but irritated me with her habit of trying to kill me every time I opened her crate.

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Birding Without Borders: A Review

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He was an extraordinary guide and an excellent companion by all accounts — including this eloquent post from the 10,000 Birds blogsite, where Strycker learned, just a few days before their scheduled meeting, that Hugo had been killed in an auto accident. That feeling can be incredibly seductive.”

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

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Having shown us the bird, the boat, and the water, Fox then introduces herself: “Albatrosses, petrels, fulmars, puffins and gulls live out their lives along these transect lines; my job is to count them all.”. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum. ” There are amazing stories here.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Green-fronted Lancebill – Doryfera ludovicae. above Socorro. 25 Jul 2018. above Socorro.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Green-fronted Lancebill – Doryfera ludovicae. above Socorro. 25 Jul 2018. above Socorro.

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