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Beak Deformities

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The Alaska Science Center has been working with chickadees for many years, attempting to solve the problem. They began work in 1999, concentrating on the Black-Capped Chickadees of Alaska. Although the Alaska Science Center concentrates on chickadees, they also study deformity cases in crows, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and jays.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5. Ten years seems like a good time to look forward as well. It continues to roll out new functionality.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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The first obstacle was getting to the general range of the species, which is the west coast from northern California to Alaska and across to Russia.* Read on, dear reader, and you will be sure to find out! But how to get there?

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From Today's New York Times

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Sarah Palin of Alaska, the scientific literature is very clear that polar bear survival is highly threatened in the wild. Sarah Palin of Alaska—that the Fish and Wildlife Service should not list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because science doesn’t support doing so—doesn’t persuade.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska. Almost as soon as you leave the nest, you have the strong urge to migrate to a place called “Venezuela” Can you imagine how many potential choices and decisions are involved in flying from Alaska to the Atlantic Seaboard, flying down the eastern U.S.,

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