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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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Fortunately, local researchers have been well aware of the dire need to learn about this species so it can be adequately protected. Carman have organized a Birdathon to raise funds for the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow project. The White-eared Ground-Sparrow is much more common. Check out the video!

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Birding Yibin, Sichuan

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Unfortunately, the folk myth associating male nose size with the size of certain reproductive organs seems to be less well-known in China. According to the McMurray hatchery , the “Silver Pheasant is considered a good ‘starter’ breed for people who want to learn more about raising pheasants” Hm. What a pity.)

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.

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Get Ready for Global Shorebird Counting!

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6), which raises awareness of the perils threatening shorebirds and the need to protect them and their habitats. Though researchers who mind eBird data will no doubt benefit from these data.) (Though researchers who mind eBird data will no doubt benefit from these data.) Interestingly, citizen science isn’t its primary goal.

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part III (Finances)

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Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results. The end result is an organization in debt and with substantially less revenue than it had in the 2000s. Note that I only have access to public documents, and I am not accountant.

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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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With that in mind, Ernesto and fellow researchers are working on figuring out which plant species might be most important for Ceruleans and other migrants so areas in and near Las Brisas can be more efficiently recuperated and restored. — Feature image of Cerulean Warbler and researchers at Las Brisas Reserve by Paz Irola.

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Support Project SNOWstorm!

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Unlike Desi, the researchers involved don’t think the owls are curling up in a nice warm bed in a hut in the woods, but they don’t have much better answers than that, at least not yet. So they are raising money to buy more. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected.

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