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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The latest press release from the USFWS.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Press, 2015), and has also written articles on eBird and bird identification. Just go to the boldfaced page number.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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The composite photographs show each species swimming and flying; flying viewpoints are from underside, below, close-up, far-out, alone and in flocks; in-photo comments give important identification points and, as needed, indicate breeding and non-breeding plumage, dark and light morphs and, for sea lions, male and female/immature images.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion. Sullivan, 2015), Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast (with Brian L.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011).

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