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Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews

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All of these titles deal with birding in specific North American geographic areas: The Atlantic coast, Pennsylvania, and Texas. where and when the species is likely to be seen on the east coast, flight style, size and structure as compared to similar species. It’s time for some short book reviews. Well, short for me.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. So, when Corey and Mike asked if I wanted to review the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania , I jumped at the chance to write about this unique type of scientific reference book. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4

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Birds of Chicken Inferno 2011

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For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. See why we keep the location undisclosed?

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The Chukar Situation

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They don’t like House Sparrows and they sure feel no sympathy whatsoever for Starlings. You may argue that they don’t wreak the same havoc with the indigenous species as do the two aforementioned invasives, but that would be a rather avicentric view. With not a species to spare. . Because birders like Chukars.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Tiny transmitters that wouldn’t hurt or irritate my releases, so I know what happens to them,” wrote Michele in Pennsylvania and Elle in Oklahoma. “As That more rehab centers would accept non-natives, like pigeons house sparrows, and starlings,” wrote Charis in Oregon. wrote Maryjane in Pennsylvania. “Me Charitable Things.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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All species are from the ABA area, and all groups must meet at least one of these criteria: (1) the group “represented a good opportunity to build core birding skills,” (2) the authors thought it was a group that needed “a refreshed treatment,” (3) the authors were intrigued by the group and wanted to present it using their unique format.

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

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He came out, we grabbed coffees and his car, and awaited the arrival of the third member of our impromptu twitching team, young birding wunderkind Adrian Burke (who I first met when twitching this bird ), fresh off his discovery of multiple Seaside Sparrows by the bike path on the west side of Manhattan a couple of days earlier.

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