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WeBird!

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I may have to buy a smartphone : For more than a year, Berres (and his graduate students, of course) have been testing and improving the fruit of that inspiration: WeBIRD, the Wisconsin Electronic Bird Identification Resource Database.

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Using The Meopta MeoPix iScoping Adapter – Digiscoping With Your iPhone

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In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens. Of course, when I take out the adapter for the scope the fact that the scope is already on a tripod should obviate the need for any further bracing.

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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

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If there is not much traffic to worry about, I get no less enjoyment birding from a car than I do from foot or on a boat…in moderation, of course. Is it different from going to some wretched sewage treatment ponds or a filthy/sketchy urban park? Many of you have driven the auto tour loops that are at many National Wildlife Refuges.

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Binoculars Review: Swarovski NL Pure 10×32

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After testing both Swarovski NL Pure 10×42 and 12×42, I – a self-confessed lover of smallish full-size binoculars, felt the urge to try the latest 32 mm NLs. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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Birding: Special Lockdown Edition

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After the first 7 days dominated by daily compound-wide Covid tests and being locked down inside the compound, I went outside on the compound grounds on days 8 and 9. Of course, now that I wanted to get a photo, I only found the female. I had already seen a pair of Oriental Magpie Robins wintering in the compound.

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Mike Bergin on Nature’s Archive Podcast

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Some of you know that I’m an active podcaster, churning out two episodes a week on testing, admissions, learning, and education on the Tests and the Rest podcast. ” Of course, that’s only a taste, so dig into the full interview over at Nature’s Archive Podcast.

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Into the Clouds

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Due to the infrequency of birders’ observations, birding the cloud forest is rife with legends; stories of fantastical sightings of mystical species such as White Bellbirds and Golden-rumped Euphonias course through the lips of any veteran birder hearing of your intent to ascend further than 800m. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush.

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