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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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To round up the day, in our base-village of Chrisochorafa, we later had one adorable Little Owl just a few hundred metres from our hotel. I went to explore the best birding area of the national park, the legendary eastern levee, and this day started with another Little Owl in the next village.

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New Place in Costa Rica, New Yard List

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Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. The bird we hope most to see is the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow although Mary wants to see a Barn Owl just as much. Right at home.

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2013 AOU North American checklist proposals

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Let’s take a look at some of what lurks inside: Pygmy-owl split. Proposal 2013-A-2 would split the “Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl” ( Glaucidium cobanense ) of southern Mexico and northern Central America from the widespread Northern Pygmy-Owl ( G. Sage Sparrow split. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A.

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Welcome Back Waterfowl at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge

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As we headed back outside and picked out the quail and American Tree and Song Sparrows around the parking lot area, I discovered a new, mammalian focus of my interest — the Columbian ground squirrel, a charismatic little rodent with white eyeliner, a red nose, and a surprising degree of self-confidence for prey.

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Song Sparrow is a genuine rarity in Miami-Dade. This Lincoln’s Sparrow is far more common. A La Sagra’s Flycatcher, a Caribbean stray, continued at Charles Deering Estate. Barn Owl: 3. Burrowing Owl: 3.

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Bird News Roundup: Birds of a feather … well, you know the rest

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After all, it’s not like I’m going to see anything other than the White-throated Sparrows and Northern Cardinals flitting about the brush pile outside my window. To that end: More caterpillars = less reason to stray? A pair of Burrowing Owls are ready for their close-up. Single, for the moment, BTBW above by Corey.).

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Apparently in the past some birders and photographers had been not so polite in their behavior when a Northern Hawk Owl had been in the vicinity, and when this bird showed up the local law enforcement did not want it made public.

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