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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. Interestingly, citizen science isn’t its primary goal. 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.)

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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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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. Do it for science! Like Desi, Project SNOWstorm wants to know what the owls are doing.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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They were different from previous guides, notably Peterson’s, utilizing photographs instead of artwork, and organizing the photographs by habitat, bird shape, and bird color rather than taxonomy. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research.

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