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Not Exactly Flying Squirrels

10,000 Birds

Anyone who dares fill bird feeders in the hopes of actually, you know, feeding birds knows well the menace hungry squirrels present. The bird feeder arms race demands incessant innovation because of the utter fearlessness and abandon driving squirrels to plunder feeders.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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Then, they had one of two different experimental setups presented to the crows. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent.

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Paradise Regained

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Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireos are still present! I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. Mountain Trogons are also still present! Finding this elusive and beautiful species at Pino Real kind of put me “on the map” with my wonderful group of Mexican birder friends.

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How My 2021 Birding Is Going So Far

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There were no American or Least Bitterns , and Caspian Terns and Ring-billed Gulls were few and far between, with no Laughing Gulls or Common Terns present. There weren’t even any White-faced Ibises , which usually number in the hundreds to thousands.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2015)

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He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back.

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Cyprus Delights – Part III

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According to The Birds of Africa Volume III , “In much of the tropics present throughout the year, with breeding and non-breeding birds usually indistinguishable”. Birds that nest in southern Africa winter to the north in the tropics, while birds that breed in southern Europe and Turkey migrate south to, you guessed it, tropical Africa.

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And So It Begins

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In spite of their many species (migratory Blue-winged, Green-winged, and Cinnamon Teals, Northern Shovelers and Northern Pintails, American Wigeons and Gadwalls ; as well as resident Mexican and Ruddy Ducks ), the winter ducks of Lake Cuitzeo do not present great identification challenges. Was it practicing?

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