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Puerto Rico’s Birds after Hurricane Maria

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The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. The 2018 CBC tallied 2,492 birds of 87 species.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

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Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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Yellowstone National Park Bird Celebration

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This is the bird formerly known as Gray Jay (from 1957 to 2018). To protect our wild spaces and all the flora and fauna (including humans), add your voice! Common Raven. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Clark’s Nutcracker. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Canada Jays. Photo by © Robin Edwards. Black-billed Magpie. Photo by © Robin Edwards.

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

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2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. For many women, pregnancy gives them a burst of energy, the joy of creating new life the boost they need to continue their daily activities while growing a human inside them. Not so much. I did not fall into that category.

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Owling in Trinidad & Tobago

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They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2018?

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Birds run on a different timetable than humans, so many of the former are making plans for fall (or spring) while the latter still ponders how to spend those summer (or winter) nights. The last weekend of July signals the midpoint of the current season, at least as far as the conventional calendar is concerned.

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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

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Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder” series, the fifth and sixth – respectively, A Tiding of Magpies and, now the latest, A Dance of Cranes. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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