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A Picnic Guest

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She lives and birds in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with some trips farther afield. A Palm Warbler , in breeding plumage, hopped onto the end of our table. Other photos by the Kinrys family By Leslie Kinrys Leslie Kinrys has loved birds since her father put a House Sparrow fledgling in her young hands.

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Wood-Warbler Week

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It may seem like cruel and unusual punishment for we denizens of the New World to spend an entire week celebrating what is surely the coolest family of birds in the world, a family that is sadly absent from the Old World, but it can’t be helped.

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Tubenose Taxonomy 101

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Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels. But several studies suggest that the storm-petrels actually belong in two different families and that diving-petrels are embedded within the rest of the petrels and shearwaters.

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2013 AOU North American checklist proposals

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Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. Shearwater split. lherminieri ). Sandpiper shuffle.

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Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

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Now, some scientists have started expressing concerns about the North American population of the birds , which is concentrated along the coasts of Maine and Canada. Food instability also appears to be driving down the weight of adult Puffins, and delaying their breeding. (That’s his snapshot of a victim above.).

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

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This is Canada, so it goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway), that common names are given in English and French. A two-page spread is devoted to the Gyrfalcon, which Earley proudly tells us is “one of the most sought-after birds in Ontario, if not all of Canada” (p. Bohemian Waxwing, p. 206, photo by Brian E.

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Lifer! But, which one?

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So I contacted him for the exact location, which turned out to be a beautiful 14-acre property that belongs to his family, and he kindly invited me over. and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. Which it was!

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