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Birds of the United States (and Provinces) of (North) America

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The Yellowlegs may sympathize with Canada’s socialized medicine, and those Curlews and Willets may be red-state Republicans, but they all mostly just want for us to leave their kettle lakes alone. After all, for migratory birds, all states are fly-over states. Leave those lakes alone!

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The Eyrie Vineyards – Pinot Gris (2017)

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When the variety was first planted on the West Coast of the United States in the 1970s, American winemakers might have adopted the literal translation “pinot gray” as a linguistic compromise, but perhaps that would risk sacrificing too much invaluable European cachet in those early days of domestic winemaking?

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Becards

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One of the reasons Mexico is such a great birding area is that, while it shares all sorts of bird groups with the United States and Canada, it also is home to some of the northernmost representatives of neotropical and genera that do not (or just barely) reach that far north, such as Woodcreepers, Tityras, and Trogons.

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What is the State Bird of Maryland?

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Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. ” Their breeding population has been estimated at 12 million birds , 82% of which spend at least part of the year in the United States.

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In Defense of Bad Photos

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The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. They may even fear you.

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Ground-Sparrows and Brush-Finches

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A hyphen in a bird’s “first” name can occur pretty much anywhere, which is why the United States has a good supply of birds like White-crowned Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Ground-Sparrows may or may not share a genus with the brownish Towhees of the southwestern United States.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada.