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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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In the 70s, with the survival of the species in jeopardy, the entire wild population was captured and brought into a captive breeding program in southern California. Turkey Vulture Wing Tagging – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder. Turkey Vultures Galore – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Must have been a camera fault.

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