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JULY 11, 2021

Another weekend brings another example of the climate volatility induced by global warming. We just endured the warmest June on record, which may well turn out to be the coolest June we’ll see in a long time. As grumpy as these daily 30-degree temperature swings are making me, you have to wonder how the birds are reacting.

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For example, the panel (see below) included three members of the pro-change Bird Names for Birds group (more representation than the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and the U.S. For example, Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark Expedition fame, has been honored with the names of multiple U.S.

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Here are some prime examples. Birds can be wonderfully colorful. Two Black-rumped Flamebacks with their distinct red crown and crest. A Blue-throated Barbet – the blue looks even better due to the contrast with the red on the top of the bird’s head.

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Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).

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In short, I truly believe that there still are, maybe not plenty but a good number of species that to this day go unnoticed to the scientific eye, but are surely known to the indigenous peoples (the best example is the newly discovered giant rat from the Solomon Islands). The Cocha Antshrike was one of these species not long ago.

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For example, when Corey gets the thrill of seeing a Black-throated Gray Warbler in Queens County, New York, he can be almost 100% sure that he is seeing a one-time vagrant, and not a previously undiscovered population. (And These are only a few examples of the many I could mention.

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The result is always ugly (see example above) and the opposite of what we seek: personal experiences and thoughts related to birds and birding, not some ChatGPT-written blurb. Whenever we feel 10,000 Birds could have more writers, we ask one of the many online AI art creation sites for a suitable illustration. Call it misleading advertising.

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Here are a few of the examples I showed these students: Many indicated they had seen Red Warbler s. Green-striped Brushfinch And here are a couple of photos of pleasant surprises that turned up while the festival participants birded: Red Crossbills , like this early-morning example, are always a nice find.

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For example, hummingbirds must find patches where there are still flowers. For example, nectarivores (hummingbirds and Bananaquits) showed a significant drop, which was not surprising given the loss of flowers to winds. For example, most nectivore numbers continued to be low. as well as below the 10-year range (47.7-68.2).

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For example, if just 1 in 10 U.S. For example, among others, I have the 1st Edition of Sibley, the 2d Edition, both of the smaller regional versions, plus one for the car.). For example, if just 1% of birders “liked” either eBird or the ABA, that would pencil out to 10 million birders.

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For example, the plate on cranes seems to be completely unchanged from the 2000 edition, which means that compared to the Brazil guide, there is again no separate illustration for the juvenile Common Crane. In fact, many of the illustrations seem to have been taken from the 2000 edition without substantial changes.

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The Pacific Golden Plover are a good example of this. The public are welcome to join the wardens and guests on the beach to watch migration in full swing. Some of the shorebirds here are quite well camouflaged in the rocks on Reddell Beach.

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Here is an example from Bulgaria guide: [link]. Yes, all this in mere 45 pages, half of them depicting maps! But how can you pack so much in so few pages?

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For example, the Northern Flicker (Reno, USA) is always interested in discussing the nutritional merits of different ant species. At woodpecker family meetings, it usually stands a bit separate from most other species as it cannot meaningfully participate in discussions about wood (it mostly lives in rocky terrain without trees).

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The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. This is a book that requires attention. The text is also carefully footnoted.

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As an example, my posts on 10,000 Birds are searchable and available online worldwide, but my articles in Birding (such as the one above) are essentially confined to oblivion. There is lots of great Birding content, but if it cannot be located, it might as well not exist.

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For many species, their crest seems to be something not worth mentioning – for example, Eurasian Hoopoe, the Secretary, the Galah, the Northern Lapwing, or the Grey-crowned Crane. So much for the educational part of the blog post.

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For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 37th in the U.S. For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). Even the nation’s capital has been ignored. out of 51, including Washington, D.C.) and West Virginia ranks 44th.

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Of interest to birders, Tallamy also presents data demonstrating that the breeding success of chickadees, for example, numbers of surviving chicks, correlates positively with the number of native trees in the immediate vicinity. Black capped Chickadee. The central messages, numbered above, are as important to me as anyone.

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For example, Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is renowned for its winter birding, featuring huge numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, among others. For example, even if nobody visited Aransas NWR in Texas, it would still provide virtually all of the wintering habitat for the endangered Whooping Crane.

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For some time after that, the hive mind of the internet was inspired to engage in an infantile but good-natured effort to bring forth a whole host of silly new names for animals, resulting in a wholesale renaming of living organisms not seen since Carl Linnaeus published his Systema Naturae in 1735.

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Getting Close,” for example, contains a lot of material on the use of bird blinds—not the large blinds sometimes (but not often enough) found in nature preserves, but blinds you buy and construct by yourself. I found that there were surprises in each chapter. Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters. Conclusion.

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It has an extensive entry in the HBW (for example, there is an entry on its molt that is longer than the complete species entry for many other bird species), indicating that it probably lives in comfortable proximity to a large number of ornithologists.

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A good example is a Little Curlew in Brolga Park. It gives the dogs a chance to get some exercise and for ourselves to keep track of the different birds that move through the area throughout the year. As the native plants flower different birds arrive and there have also been some surprises over the years.

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For example, the platform overlooking the heronry – initially, there were no benches (nor in any other of their hides), so I commented to the provincial Secretary for the environment (he is a birder and I know him personally) and he forwarded those suggestions to the reserve management.

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As one topic example, Marconi Campos-Cerqueira presented a paper entitled “Past, Current and Future Distributions of Puerto Rican Fauna: Implications from Climate Change.” For example, palms are generally more resistant to storms and over the long term, they may predominate, deferentially impacting many bird species.

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For example, there is the Black-faced Bunting. My prime example is White-throated Rock Thrush , which has the same descriptive name in Chinese (Baihoujidong). The Chinese name is Huitouwu, or “Grey-headed Bunting” – point for China, in my opinion. Black-faced Bunting (male) – or rather grey-headed?

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Examples could include pigeons in urban areas or European Starlings in the United States, which are widespread and sometimes considered pests. Another example. Common and Ubiquitous Species : In some contexts, “trash bird” might refer to very common species that are often overlooked by birders seeking rarer sightings.

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An example of the same RainCrow result in an eBird checklis t is below. A good example is once when I was visiting Wyoming, I found a checklist from a few years earlier that had 750 Horned Larks, 100 Lapland Longspurs, and a Golden Eagle at a nondescript place called “Beef Unit.”

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For example, in May, I was on the Maryland shore for a wedding and submitted several checklists for Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. The links are clickable and sortable, so I can, for example, instantly see that I observed just one Worm-eating Warbler on a single checklist and that I also submitted an audio file.

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For example, the ABA has sponsored conferences and its publications and blog have addressed diversity. A FWS survey found that “Ninety-three percent of birders identified themselves as white.”. The ABA and other birding organizations consider diversity important and have attempted outreach to minorities. But progress is slow.

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He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights.

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For example, yellow, orange, and black Western Tanagers were especially abundant (as well as two Summer Tanagers ). Either way, I enjoy seeing them… at least, that part of them which they allow me to see. There was also a good number of other birds with coloring similar to my orioles.

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And, in a nice irony, an example par excellence of the law of unintended consequences: the Redhead, a diving duck, has an aversion to wind turbines, and will change its feeding areas to avoid them. “Scientists fear that this may cause them to lose condition over winter and thus damage their breeding prospects.”

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For example, almost every year my life list is impacted directly by AOS splits and renamings. The examples go on and on. Much less study has been devoted to species outside of the most-developed world, which leaves a much greater possibility of new discoveries and determinations.

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For example, if in this forest, you call out for somebody named rufous, at least two species might show up – the Rufous-breasted Accentor … and the Rufous-vented Tit. For example, another Carrion Crow. Datong National Forest Park is an extensive forest about one hour away from Xining. A Grey-headed Woodpecker lives nearby.

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I have to admit though ,that if for example you already posses an ATX/STX mono system , then the price for just the BTX eyepiece module is kind of acceptable. No, this big boy is meant to stay put with all the modules attached like for example on a house deck if you live by a lake or in the back of your car.

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