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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of April 2014?

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Comes another, O Swallow, In an egg warm and white, And another is callow. Past Memphis, down Nile! but love all the while. Builds his nest in my heart, Through the cold winter-weeks: And as one Love takes flight. And the large gaping beaks. Chirp all day and all night: And the Loves who are older.

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A special Pied Oystercatcher

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The breeding season in the north of Australia starts from about July 1st and there are often several attempts if the eggs fail, are lost or the chicks don’t survive. On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay.

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The Bank Swallow Is On the List of Common Birds in Steep Decline

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The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. Conservation 2014 State of the Birds Report Bank Swallow swallows' It can be distinguish from the Northern Rough-winged Swallow by its dark breast band and the white of the throat curling up behind its ear.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of March 2014?

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When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush. If spring so far has failed to live up to your expectations, look upon the season as Gerard Manley Hopkins did : Nothing is so beautiful as spring-. Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring.

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Shearwater Success: Seabirds Return to Rat-Free Islands

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But when you consider that the population had dropped to a low of 24 nests in 2014, and no chicks had survived for the past century, the rebound represents significant success. As a bonus, another seabird has returned to the officially rat-free islands: the European Storm-Petrel.

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The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You!

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The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings! Click on photos for full sized images.

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