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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.

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A Guide to Some Possible Bird Species Splits in Costa Rica

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Bird species that require further research. For the birder, this means that no matter how many Clapper Rails you have seen in the salt marshes of New Jersey, North Carolina, or Texas, that Clapper Rail that lurks in the Black Mangroves at Chomes, Costa Rica is going to be a different species.

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The Traveling Birder

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But Northern Cardinal, Catbird, and White-throated Sparrow do not appear until the 270s, during a visit to Central Park while on business trip to New York City. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina.

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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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The Northeast goes as north as southern Ontario, Quebec, and North Brunswick, west to the western borders of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, and south to the southern borders or Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia. Organization and Content. Knowing the names of living things makes them ‘real’ to us, adds value.

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The Bird With Four Sexes

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And this brings us to Zonotrichia albicollis , the White-Throated Sparrow. From a recent article in Nature , “This bird acts like it has four sexes,” says Christopher Balakrishnan, an evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who worked with Tuttle and Gonser.

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The Littel Big Year – Week 45: Wrapping up the Bahamas

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The return home included a total of 5 ½ hours of flight delays, one missed flight, and we subsequently missed the entire town of Charlotte, North Carolina. We also got an extra stop in Dallas, Texas (Hey wasn’t I just here) but again no birds could be added, unless I count the House Sparrow flying around inside the terminal.

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