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Good News for UK Birds (and Birders)

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Some of Great Britain’s most cherished seabirds just got an added layer of protection. Officials designated 12 miles along the coast of Northumberland as a Special Protection Area , according to Natural England, the U.K. government’s independent adviser on the natural environment. And it’s the top U.K. ”

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2011)

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Tufted Puffins foraging off Protection Island on a boat trip from Port Townsend, WA? That sucker earns its name over and over again! Corey is on the road as well and comes by his best bird of the weekend honestly. How do you like six (!) What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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At Dunnet Head, we got to see a couple of Atlantic Puffins, a few Razorbills, some Guillemots and gulls. Hundreds of Black-headed Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls , Mew Gulls , and Fulmars , thousands of Razorbills , 60-70 Puffins , and literally tens of thousands of Guillemots. Flying in formation. Mom and her baby.

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This Week in Bird News: Junk Food Junkies, Snacks on a String, and More

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This Bald Eagle, photographed by Corey, was after Blue-winged Teal in Florida, not Atlantic Puffins in Maine. In what appears to be good news for the Gunnison Sage Grouse (depending on which environmentalists you ask), a federal proposal suggests new protections. Look out below! Fear not—the film has just been released on DVD. (In

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Reviewing 2011 – My Year in Birds

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The Tufted Puffins at Protection Island in Washington State. Any puffin is awesome and Tufted Puffin is especially awesome! Who wouldn’t want to see this bird? The Thayer’s Gull that I spotted in California.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. At $55 a head, and free for toddler Desi, the chance to see puffins from a comfortable boat seemed too good to ignore.

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Birding by Volunteering

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There is no feeling in the world like knowing your helping something you care about, whether its sharks or puffins, protecting forests or reefs, advancing science or communities. And then there is the most obvious benefit – the feeling of doing something useful. This Laysan Albatross died from ingested plastic.

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