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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of October 2019)

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Corey never figured out exactly what the bird was trying to eat (Some kind of egg sac? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2019)

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We nailed down a few lifers for Ivy, the best of which was Yellow-crowned Night-heron at Big Egg Marsh, which we don’t ever see upstate. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Soda Lake Shorbs

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They know how to find food for themselves only a few moments after emerging from their egg, and then likely produce a special protein which allows them to harness quantum entanglement for global navigation. I had the good fortune to visit Lake Nakuru in Kenya in 2019, one of the high elevation rift valley soda lakes.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A lot of his travel experiences involved camping and independent travel on small sailing yachts, and if this is your preferred mode of travel this book will be particularly useful. Press, 2011).

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And So It Begins

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In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. He has lots of experience with its close relative in Morelia, the endemic Spotted Wren. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. Was it practicing?

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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Her bird books are Birds by the Shore (previously Notes from the Shore, 1995 and re-issued 2019) and the award-winning The Genius of Birds (2016), which focused on studies of bird cognition. Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’

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