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A Comparison of Birding in Costa Rica and Eilat, Israel

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As with any birding locales, there are similarities and there are differences and in this transcontinental case, the differences are obviously much more pronounced but I can’t help but think about comparisons. This is a serious issue around Eilat and seems to affect local resident breeders more than migrants.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2014?

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Being a resident in an ecosystem certainly has its advantages, as does being a breeder (sometimes), but, every once in a while, you should visit someplace where you’re considered an exotic! Whatever Corey will be doing surely pales in comparison, so let’s not even talk about it. How about you?

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” (Note to those readers who do not know Wham!: ” ( source ).

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Buller’s Albatrosses

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The Buller’s Mollymawk is an endemic breeder to New Zealand, although it ranges widely away from the islands to feed, and regularly goes to South America’s Humboldt Current to feed. For size comparison, a scrum of albies. I hope you enjoy the photos. Click any one to enbiggen it.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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comparison tables!) This is an introductory guide, as are all the guides in the ABA series, and it is an excellent one. © 2023 by Chris Earley and Scott & Nix, Inc., Bohemian Waxwing, p. 206, photo by Brian E. 2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. and used them often when I was learning how to bird.

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Flock to Marion

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Although Prince Edward Island and Marion are close enough, only 21 km apart, Prince Edward is free of invasives, besides four plant species, so offers a great comparison for success. This cruise rose funds for the Mouse-free Marion project of Birdlife South Africa which will attempt to eradicate house mice from Marion Island.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Well, in comparison to many other birds, young ravens leave the nest earlier and are thus more clumsy and helpless when they are found on the ground or on low branches, all by themselves. You know, cavity breeders. But why are ravens thought of as negligent parents?

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