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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of September 2021)

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I spent the last week in Alaska chasing all kinds of excitement but finding fewer birds than I’d hoped. From Creamer’s Field to the University of Alaska campus, these big, gregarious birds bugle their presence proudly as they pass through town. Millions of birds around the world are making moves. Will you move with them?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of August 2021)

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Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At Sadly, it seems that Alaska lacks the internet or phone service, as I have not heard from him about what his Best Bird of the Weekend was. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.)

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Hummer Time

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to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. And then there’s rufous, who journeys between Mexico and Alaska twice a year. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S.

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Does Choco Screech-Owl Occur in Costa Rica?

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In any case, screech-owls are birds of the Megascops genus, small nocturnal owls found in wooded habitats from southern Alaska to northern Argentina. but without further evidence from playback experiments and/or genetic studies, splitting it now might be jumping the boat.

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Finding Solace in Birds

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But, while we are making sacrifices for the avian quest, we also experience side benefits much less trying in nature. Mangroves in the Yucatan yielded looks at a creeping Rufous-necked Wood-Rail marveled at with a birding friend long before a lost, curious individual photobombed its way into the modern birding world.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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Adam has traveled extensively to all 7 continents, leading tours to numerous countries ranging from Colombia to Egypt, Angola to Papua New Guinea and Antarctica to Alaska. Adam is one of Africa’s most experienced birders, having seen over 2,000 species on the continent as well as 7,000 species worldwide.