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It is the largest of the Zonotrichia sparrows, with little cousins including the White-throated, White-crowned , and Golden-crowned Sparrows that already occupy my life list, and the Rufous-collared Sparrow down in Mexico and points south. This genus contains some of my favorite sparrows, although it is hard to put my finger on why.

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JULY 20, 2016

Working my way thru college towards a wildlife sciences degree, and ever since, rarely has there not been a bird book close at hand. I also have a good selection of Mexico bird guides, but they are strongly biased towards the mainland Mexico and Central America. Despite all of this, I had never heard of the Ridgway’s Rail.

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Alamagordo chimps will be allowed to remain in New Mexico for about two years while the NIH studies the issue of their transference. AP) - Some 186 chimpanzees will remain at a federal facility in New Mexico for now. This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Good way to end 2010.

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San Antonio Biomedical Research Albuquerque New Mexico 100

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. A checklist from Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C. was good for 11 lifers. Our honeymoon in the U.S Virgin Islands ( St. John and St. Thomas ) was good for 26 lifers.

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MAY 12, 2018

The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Numerous projects take place that monitor bird populations and help educate people of all ages about birds. Costa Rica is one of those places.

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Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 168

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There is no doubt in my mind that the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun t (GBBC) is the most impressive citizen science endeavor in the world. I didn’t have time to bird each day, but I set out in the afternoon on the 13th to count birds along the Navarre portion of Santa Rosa Sound, followed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Florida Pelicans New York Times Birds 100

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MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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APRIL 3, 2018

One of the most prolific birding writers of our time, specializing in birds of Mexico, hummingbirds, gulls, seabirds, molt, rarities, but not precluding other subjects like a forthcoming guide to birds of Chile, Howell has written and co-written at least 13 books and 35 ornithological articles. Howell, this attitude is not surprising.

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Birds North America 2012 America 147

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MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and other islands that make up the Greater and Lesser Antilles. ’ Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean covers 39 species found in, as the titles says, North America and the Caribbean islands. It includes owls found in Canada, the U.S.,

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 227

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MAY 17, 2016

The dry regions in the southern extent of the studied zone is greater in North America, but the more southerly, outside the study area dry zone is huge in Europe compared to the North America study (North Africa vs. Mexico). Stephens, Philip, et al. Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents. 352:6281(84-87).

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 204

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

It was the adventure of a lifetime, made even more exciting by a travel route that went through Panama and Mexico, where Ridgway was exposed to Neotropical birds, a passion that informed his later work. The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 150

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JULY 20, 2023

July is the month when some of Mexico’s best birders (and I don’t use that term lightly) ask me to take them to the tiny town of Paso Ancho, in the hopes of seeing the ever-so-scarce and little-studied Sinaloa Martin. Two weeks later, it was a young math and science teacher from Oregon named Brent who asked me to take him with me.

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Mexico Oregon Squirrels Science 151

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JUNE 1, 2021

The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). GUIDE COVERAGE. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Every year, Ducks Unlimited of Mexico, A.C. DUMAC) surveys the populations of waterfowl and shorebirds in a good number of major wetlands here in Mexico. And even when I did try, my counts came up significantly lower than the science people’s count.

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Pelicans Blackbirds Ducks Hunting 223

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JANUARY 7, 2014

and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 218

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APRIL 4, 2023

At any rate, the inclusion of these species, which are seen in Mexico and Central America, does make this a ‘North American’ field guide in the true ‘North American’ definition of the geographic term. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 217

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MAY 22, 2012

I’ve been sciencing really hard lately. In the spring of 2011 he lived in Chavarrillo, Mexico, which lies between the cities of Veracruz and Xalapa on the east side of the country. Brown Jays are abundant throughout eastern Mexico, perhaps even more so than their facemelting Green Jay cousins. But I digress.

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San Diego Mississippi Mexico Science 157

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JULY 3, 2018

This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. He says he is motivated by what he has learned from the curators about the skins importance to science, but he is also clearly irritated by the fact that Rist has gotten off so lightly. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 104

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APRIL 15, 2014

I’ve been down with an odd illness for a few weeks, and then I flew to Mexico and back (boy, are my arms tired!) While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! There is a bit of science news. so I’m a bit behind in my intense pursuit of scientific findings related to birds.

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Birds Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines 181

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DECEMBER 7, 2019

They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Alphabetic Taxonomic. calle jocote.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 140

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MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Further, the crane take in Mexico is a free-for-all: neither regulated nor recorded. Given the projected recruitment rate, harvesting 6% of the population each year in the US alone seems to me to be cutting it too close to the edge.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. La Paz, Mexico. Beljarica, centralni forland (Kovilovo floodplain), IBA Uš?e e Save u Dunav.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Those readers with slightly morbid interests might want to seek out a paper in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences describing the case of heavy mixed infection of Golden Pheasants by Heterakis isolonche and H. in biology at the University of Mexico looking at sexual selection in Golden Pheasants.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

Back when I rediscovered birding, about seven years ago, there didn’t seem to be anyone doing serious birding in my corner of Mexico. Three are biology students, one is an elementary-school science teacher, and I am a birding, well, fanatic. This year, on the 21st of December, 2019, Michoacán had its second Christmas Bird Count.

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2019 Birds Blackbirds Sparrows 148

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

They birded 6 countries; USA, UK, Costa Rica, Serbia, Australia, and Mexico. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 07 Jan 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Hwy 469, near Tucumcari New Mexico. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 12 Oct 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 07 Jan 2018. 06 Jan 2018. 09 Jan 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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MARCH 4, 2014

There is also a useful prefatory chapter on “How to Use This Book” that explains the unusual organization of the Species Accounts, as well as maps of the geographic areas—East Asia, Mexico and adjacent areas, the Caribbean and adjacent areas—discussed in the text, a glossary of advanced terms and abbreviations and a listing of abbreviations.

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North America America Birds United States 256

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JUNE 1, 2022

Most Marbled Godwits breed in inland North America, and winter along the tropical coasts of Mexico and the Caribbean. Last year, there were eight Hudsonian sightings reported on eBird for Mexico. Only one, in Mexico City, was far from the coast. 2020 yielded a single sighting; 2019, two; 2018, four.

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Mexico 2018 Ducks Breeding 226

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APRIL 1, 2014

Aleutian Tern shows Alaska, Bridled Tern zooms into the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, with the added bonus of showing the year-round area off of Florida, on the eastern and southeastern coasts. Color: It is hard to talk about color when you are dealing with terns, which are mostly black and white and gray.

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