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My Top Ten Birds of 2016

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The year 2016 has been a pretty good year. I opened the year in California and even though I flew out in the evening on New Year’s Day I did see some species out there that I would otherwise not have seen for the year. Winter birding around New York City was just so-so but I did add one species to my Queens list.

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

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Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. This still leaves the user flipping through sections, looking for the species in question, though I don’t think there are many species with this habitat overlap.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“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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New Yearā€™s Day Birding at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary

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On New Year’s Day 2016, our last day in California before heading back to New York, I was pleased for the chance to get out for a few hours in the morning to jump start the year list. San Joaquin is renowned among wildlife photographers for the up close opportunities with shorebirds and ducks. San Joaquin was the perfect choice!

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called ā€œ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.ā€. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S. million birders.

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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 Thus, birders like natural areas close to home with rare species, and perhaps some ducks.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of January 2016)

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I got a good dose of seaducks this weekend up at the mouth of Irondequoit Bay; the most interesting species amidst the mixed flocks was a lone Bufflehead hobnobbing with Common Goldeneyes. Such a rare bird is always a good sighting! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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