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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Review: National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America

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My birding adventures this week, while Western, were far from Interior (three words for you: Black-bellied Whistling Duck ). As the title implies, it is the casual to very casual birder, and by extension the gardener, walker-in-parks, or general noticer-of-things who is curious about the birds s/he encounters in everyday life.

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A Bird’s Eye View of the Rainwater Basin

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Funk WPA is about three miles long and is dissected by roads and dikes. Google recently released a trial version of Google Earth Studio , which allows a user to easily create bird’s eye animations using Google Earth. This short video hops from Funk WPA to nearby Harvard WPA , both of which are part of Nebraska Birding Trails.

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A Bird’s Eye View of the Rainwater Basin

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Funk WPA is about three miles long and is dissected by roads and dikes. Google recently released a trial version of Google Earth Studio , which allows a user to easily create bird’s eye animations using Google Earth. This short video hops from Funk WPA to nearby Harvard WPA , both of which are part of Nebraska Birding Trails.

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What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

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To stay one step ahead of potential risks, organizations need a bird's eye view of online activity — that's where social media, search data, and other sources come in. Crunching numbers and dissecting trends from social media, search engines, and news outlets offer organizations a level of intelligence that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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Birds evacuate waste in many ways. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths. Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. They’ve got it coming and going!

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Frankly, Ho Chi Minh City is not a place you would go to specifically for birding. But if you are there anyway (at the start of a longer birding trip) and have an afternoon to spare, then why not? This indicates that the bird is aware of where the predator is looking. eBird states that there are nearly 50 of them.

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