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Osprey Cam

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One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part. The spoonbills are a collection of six species from around the world whose facial accouterments have reached their terrifying bizarre zenith. Biblical tales? No wonder ibis are so beloved.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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He discovered the little black-bibbed warbler in 1832 in the canebrakes of coastal South Carolina on one of his frequent outings, collected it, and sent the skins on to John James Audubon who eventually named the species he would never see after his friend. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev.