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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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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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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.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. Bring on 2017! 4) Small Pratincole.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species.

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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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