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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. It’s fascinating stuff.

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of October 2016?

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Do a little research into this topic this weekend and report back… I’ll be up to my neck in both work and chilly rain, neither of which presage a good weekend of wildlife watching. But other locales, closer to the poles and further from the coast, may see migration drying up already, perhaps even over entirely.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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The methodology section is detailed, but the highlights are that the survey was conducted online, and more than 33,000 birders completed at least part of the survey, which was conducted in 2016-2017, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. (I To a layperson such as myself, the methodology appears fairly rigorous. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. People who work with wildlife understand that death is a part of life. People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune. They are docile and devoted parents who will not leave their nests.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. As a result, FWS denied the petition to delist in August 2016. CESAR had alleged that Dr. Zink would suffer professional and reputational injuries because FWS rejected his research, but the court found that inadequate.