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All Is Not Lost, Part II

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Having said all that, I’ll give some context by showing, once again, an image I included in my post just last week: This photo, downloaded from a birders’ chat, shows Lake Cuitzeo on Monday, February 5th. Both species can theoretically breed in central Mexico, but in my experience are almost exclusively winter visitors.

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Hummer Time

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Of the 300 hummingbird species across the globe, North America only sees fewer than two dozen of them. Then, I learned that over 400 species of birds have been identified in and around these islands. Download a complete list of the Birds of Aransas NWR. So let’s plan that trip, shall we? Rufous hummingbird, Photo © Robin L.

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How Bird Photography Has Changed My Birding

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While plowing through my computer-hard-drive-clogging downloads of recent bird photographs from my various cameras and trying to delete the crummy and enhance (or even just keep track of) the keepers, I noticed that I had a long series of images of a displaying male Ruddy Duck. &# and be on my way looking for other birds.

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Birding in Greece – birdfinder book review

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What is even better, you may download it onto your smartphone, read it online ( here ) or buy a paper version. The book ends with a country checklist, 449 species long, and the contacts of the managing authorities of protected areas. I chose paper. So far, I read parts of the book, including chapters on areas I have visited (e.g.

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Birding Without Borders: A Review

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He digitized and downloaded all of them, he says, in preparation for his 2015 Big Year — a whirlwind trip around the world in an effort to see 5,000 bird species in one year, something never before done. The result is his delightful new book, “ Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World.”.

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Analogue vs. digital birding

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Born in a different era, when bird photography was difficult, I gave many advice how to write the basic info, but the strangest thing to novices today turned out to be the advice on sketching the unknown species. Still, besides documenting rare species, forms, or odd individuals (e.g. Why should I sketch it, I am lousy at that.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2018)

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They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. He’d share a photo but his computer has died leaving him with a camera full of images and nothing to download them to. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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