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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. The Profiles are engaging reading, much livelier than most identification guides, reflecting the broader scope and goals.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2017)

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Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose.

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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of June 2017)

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June may be the gateway to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but the birding still delivers the thrills of spring migration when you have access to the right birds’ breeding grounds. I visited Letchworth State Park this weekend, renowned for a ridiculous density of breeding wood warblers. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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What the rings reveal

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Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2017)

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Speaking of corvids, Corey’s Best Bird of the the Weekend was actually his best birds of the weekend, a pair of Common Ravens attempting breeding for the second year in a row on Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of April 2017)

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He had a lot to choose from with displaying Clark’s Grebes , hordes of western hummingbirds, breeding plumaged American Avocets and all the other goodies that can be found in the diverse habitats of SoCal. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.