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Comebackers

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Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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They apparently meet the criteria for inclusion in that they are regular migrants or annual visitors to specific areas of Alaska. It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. “I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

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Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos.

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Black Swifts Nesting at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park

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Even though the overall breeding range remains largely unchanged from that in the 1940′s, the entire coastal population has been in recent severe decline. The ecological requirements for Black Swifts to breed restrict them to a very limited supply of nesting locations. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres at Brigantine

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Either that, or I see them in spring with hordes of other shorebirds feeding on the eggs of Horseshoe Crabs. It has an enormous range, occurring in such far-flung locales as New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Greenland, and Brazil, to name just a few. Ruddy Turnstone is a Species of Least Concern according to BirdLife International.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.