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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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The warm, sunny climate beckons a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds to spend the winter, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. Can we hit 200 ABA-countable species in four days next year? Cattle Egret: 133.

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A kestrel in the rain

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By Martin Garwood Martin has been interested in birds from an early age and has traveled extensively in pursuit of different species. He recently set up a charity, High Weald Swifts, to promote conservation in the UK of this now “red-listed” species. He has a particular passion for Swifts.

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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. It is an intriguing choice of species. New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). What is the status of this species in the Kerkini NP?

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Munkajarra Wetlands near Derby

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At the end of May in 2015 I wrote about the area too and there were huge numbers of birds there then. It is quite possible that you will observe all three species of Ibis- Straw-necked Ibis , White Ibis and Glossy Ibis. It hadn’t changed much at all until a few weeks ago when it was graded. Purple Swamphens. Black-necked Stork.

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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

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The White-backed Vulture was “not considered of conservation concern until 2007, after which its threat status has been successively elevated, becoming Critically Endangered in 2015 following severe decline in several parts of range and likelihood of continuing decline.” ” (HBW).

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Persistence Pays Off For Burrowing Owls

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In the summer of 2015 our investment paid off. This property is located in northern Butte County which is nearing the (dwindling) northern most historic range for this species in California. This property is also a site with vernal pools and uses cattle grazing for vegetation control. A pair of Burrowing Owls fledged six young!

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