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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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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles, Biology Letters , publishe April 03, 2019, [link]. Langmore and Michelle L.

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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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The return of the Old Man

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Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience.

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