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My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

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In the northern Backa region of Serbia, in the mid-1970s there were more than 37,000 active nests of Rooks, while in 2009 there were less than 8500, indicating a loss of more than 76% over a time span of 35 years ( source ). And that is where I started to experiment with the eBird. nests per colony.

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Pelican Release with International Bird Rescue

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Since 2009, International Bird Rescue has released over 1,100 California Brown Pelicans with blue bands from their wildlife hospitals! ” In the meantime, this is a video/slideshow I put together of what was one of the most memorable experiences in my birding life, my International Bird Rescue Pelican Release.

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Bird of the Year?

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I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago. How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year?

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

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A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift.

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Are You Going to the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

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Ever since I met Julie in Honduras back in 2009 I have wanted to get out birding with her again. I currently have 164 species on my Florida life list, which has been built entirely upon my two previous experiences at Space Coast. Spend time in the field with the Zickefoose-Thompson clan. It hasn’t happened.

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In the Weeds

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Or was I, like so many birders, doomed to eternal restlessness, always investing somewhere else with the glamor of new birds and new experiences? In honor of fall, and of the Chipping Sparrow that just smacked itself (thankfully not too hard) against my balcony window, here’s a blast from the past: Oct. Dawn is getting later and later.

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