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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

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There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2024

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A Purple Heron on Chongming Island Cattle Egrets , also on Chongming Island Black-winged Stilts … … and Grey-headed Lapwings are their neighbors in the flooded rice paddies of the island. A Light-vented Bulbul collecting nest building material – or is it for nest renovation already? Not so for the Little Grebe.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso.

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Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica?

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Not that long ago, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, rainforests were razed to make way for hot and chiggery cattle pasture, and bot flies probably became more numerous than some bird populations. This Costa Rican enigma came to light after being collected by C.

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Plague of Summer’s End: An Ode to the Carolina Grasshopper

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Cattle Egrets might well get them when they leap out of the way of our domestic replacement bison. Manigault, Clemson University Donated Collection, Bugwood.org a. The Swainson’s Hawk is called Grasshopper Hawk for a reason. They can carry parasites to humans. Sitting grasshopper photo courtesy of D.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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The population of parrotlets they studied was located on one of the many huge hatos (cattle ranches) in the Venezuelan llanos, a vast swath of flat flooded savannah in the central third of the country that drains into the Rio Orinoco. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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One of this species’ many peculiarities is that it has a digestive system unique amongst birds: Hoatzins use bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut to break down the vegetable material they consume, much as cattle and other ruminants do. There is no rubbish floating down the Inirida River, nor decorating its banks.

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