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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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so I’m a bit behind in my intense pursuit of scientific findings related to birds. First, the bird butts. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of birds flying by out there are going the other way. The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. But I do have a few items.

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Osprey Cam

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It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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Using The Meopta MeoPix iScoping Adapter – Digiscoping With Your iPhone

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In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens. That I can get decent images and videos of birds through my iPhone means that I will be able to share shots from the field immediately, assuming that the iPhone has a signal.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. This gentle bird frequents bird feeders and readily nests almost anywhere. A seemingly rather peaceful bird, it gets its name from its easily identifiable mournful call. v=44fNo6B5gUI.

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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But please also consider that the subject of this exercise is an image gained without having to disturb a hungry bird refuelling during its migration. Would the photograph be better if the whole bird was portrayed without being masked by unwanted greenery? You can set up a test subject and partly obscure it to make a practice piece.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. There are lots of birds we can’t count. There are lots of birds we can’t count. We can’t count caged birds.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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Being sacred may not have been that great for the Ibis in Egypt though – apparently, mummies of the Ibis are by far the most common bird mummies found there. And it seems that most of these mummified birds came from the wild rather than being specifically domesticated, according to DNA studies. ” ( source ).

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