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Northern Potoo

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Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. This is an adaptation that it shares with other potoo species, as shown in Corey’s photo of a roosting Great Potoo. In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy.

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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan

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Somewhat strangely, the HBW calls it a “small grey to yellow babbler” – while the species indeed has some grey parts, that is not the color that sticks to mind when seeing or remembering the bird. Plus the sibia apparently plays an important role in the pollination of one endangered rhododendron species ( source ).

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Thousands of Tricolored Blackbirds Saved Through Farmer/Conservationist Partnership

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In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California. (For Recently, Audubon California announced that its partnership with six California farms and the U.S.D.A.’s

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Birding Shanghai in May

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Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. A cuckoo species with a sense of honor, being a non-parasitic cuckoo. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species that made it to the area we are in under their own power. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively.

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Western Bluebirds Are Back

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From the 1913 USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard: “The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. Its favorite nesting sites are crannies in the farm buildings or boxes made for its use or natural cavities in old apple trees.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).