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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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Nobody has seen any ever since after Category 5 Hurricane Dorian buffeted the low-lying islands with 200-mph winds for two days in September 2019. He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of November 2019)

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Obviously, those who seek the best views often aspire to the best optics, which we can all agree are modern miracles of science. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of November 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. When did birding become so intimately intertwined with technology?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2019)

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Wherever you engage in this time-honored celebration of citizen science and avian diversity, dress for the weather and have a blast! The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies. Thus, the court did not even address the science regarding taxonomy and connectivity, which continues to develop. Case citation: Ctr.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Donna]: Danielle Whittaker takes a personal viewpoint of a very different aspect of ornithology in The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent , a perfect blend of science and autobiography. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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How Many Birders are There, Really? (Addendum)

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The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it stated that there were 45 million “birders,” of which 39 million were “around-the-home birders” and 16 million were more active “away-from-home” birders who traveled at least a mile to see birds. I have previously written about the U.S.