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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others.

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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

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Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. And what about lifestyle? The Swallow-tailed Gull aforementioned has that edgy look, with its red eye-liner and eccentric bill.

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Owls (because they merit target status everywhere). Great Green Macaw. Crakes (because now there is good gen and guides to find them).

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. Barred Owl Bombardment About the Author Carrie Carrie Laben, after years of writing and birding in New York State, moved to Montana to pursue her two great passions more effectively. Wicked, right?

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin.

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City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

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and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims. Best birds: Woodcock (very hard to see), Tawny Owl , 6 species of woodpeckers including Middle Spotted , Gray-headed (rare) and Black ; Goldcrest , Short-toed Treecreeper ; in winter joined by Firecrest and Bullfinch. Main eBird checklist.

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A long way from nowhere

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We are remote but what a great lifestyle! Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Wicked, right?

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