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Salvias and the Hummers that Love Them

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and both are native to Mexico — just not my part of Mexico. The moral of the story: If you live in hummingbird country, you really should grow as many nice, tubular salvias as your climate and space allows. Salvia leucantha (Mexican Bush Sage) and Salvia greggii (Autumn Sage) are both common garden plants in the U.S.,

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Water, Water, Everywhere

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The former are supposed to fly south only to and along Mexico’s coasts, while the latter should barely reach this far south strictly along the Mexican coast for the winter. The moral of the story? Most winter in the U.S. and Canada). Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right.

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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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For my state of Michoacán in central Mexico, Lago de Cuitzeo is an unusually poor site for our specialty, which is west-Mexico-only endemics. Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers?

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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

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Mexico Totals: 238. It just would not have been possible with our her determination, organization, foreign language skills, money management, incredible bird spotting ability (even at 70+ MPH) and her moral support that kept me going when I was at my most tired. Here are the bird species numbers by country: USA Total: 361.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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Collaborative List – March 2017

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La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. (Edogawa Ward–Kasai Rinkai Park). 07 Feb 2017. Pacific Black Duck – Anas superciliosa. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2017. Blue-winged Teal – Anas discors. 01 Jan 2017.

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NYT Opens the Door to the Humane Myth

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The most recent execution, of Kenneth Biros, involved 30 minutes to find a vein for the single-drug and "the execution only reinforced that any form of capital punishment is legally suspect and morally wrong.". Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows? That is the way to eliminate the inevitable problems with executions."

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