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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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Sixteen species that have been recorded in the United States are covered: six Myiarchus flycatchers and ten Kingbird ( Tyrannus ) flycatchers. Lee and Birch have co-authored field identification articles on birds that are not flycatchers, including dowitchers, loons, pipits, and orioles, for Birding and Texas Birds Annual.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Of course, my Profile Page allows me to see this information in yet another way, via a color-coded map that allows me to look globally, by country, by state, and by county. Since virtually all of my birding to the United States, that’s the map I look at most.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. Authors Alexander Lees & James Gilroy are British ornithologists who have spent time working in the United States. Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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Flock to Marion

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Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

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It does get confusing, though, because the Species Account says that it is “unlikely to be confused with any other flycatcher in the United States” (p.51). They have co-authored a number of articles, including several on field identification for Birding and Texas Birds Annual.

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A Different Kind of Spring

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I’ve been sciencing really hard lately. After all, there are some epic splits coming your way… what do you think about new species of storm-petrel and murrelet that can be found in the United States? Bush had Dick Cheney, the birding community has Felonious Jive. But I digress.

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