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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of birds flying by out there are going the other way. All I see are their buts. I’ve seen some interesting terns, and it is possible that I saw a small flock of migrating Bonaparte’s Gulls.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution lacks the statistical density of the 1999 volume, but, at 308-pages and in paperback, it is portable. Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!)

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Oostvaardersplassen

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Since Twitter hadn’t been released yet, mainly for lack of phones, Thomas had a lot of time and he proceeded by scientifically and statistically refuting Buffon’s statements in his own book “ Notes on the State of Virginia”. It’s the only Dutch eagle. Our eagle makes Baldy look imparfait, even a bit manqué.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. You don’t have to buy a special license to hunt a crane. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! It’s free! So…where’s the massive revenue from shooting 400 cranes in Kentucky?

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Collaborative List – April 2017

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9 countries/territories/special administrative areas/principalities/kingdoms were represented in April’s statistics; Costa Rica, Australia, Mexico, United States, Serbia, Hong Kong, Panama, Kuwait and UK. White-bellied Sea-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucogaster. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. 13 Jan 2017.

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The Collaborative List 2017 – January.

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The intimidating manner of The Management implied that an improvement will be made this year, so the statistics for 2017 will be rigorously combed and contorted into alternative truths until one is found. White-bellied Sea-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucogaster. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. 01 Jan 2017.

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