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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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These practical and functional examples of public art were “designed by local artists and chosen in partnership with local community members.” But this “tiny, hyperactive songbird” is not found only high in the tree canopy. It also found much lower, adorning some of Portland’s public trash cans.

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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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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, 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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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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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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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 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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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, 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 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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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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There’s a welcome absence of climate change hectoring, Beehler recognizing (for example) that changes in distribution of southern birds can (and should) be explained in many ways: winter feeding, the interstate highway system (with its strips of edge and shrub habitat, and roadkill), and otherwise.

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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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As an example of how close they were, the shot above is uncropped. Corey enjoyed a birding each morning this weekend and saw a lot of birds that could have been his Best Bird of the Weekend, including his first White-rumped Sandpiper of the year, a nice juvenile Red Knot , a couple of Blackburnian Warblers , and a surprising Mourning Warbler.

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If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. The second thing they did was to interfere with the genetic pathways in some chickens, which produced a chicken with beaky bits that were more like snouty bits found in, for example, a Alligator.

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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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A Common Cuckoo , a rare example of me successfully taking an in-flight shot. If it wasn’t so common, I would be quite happy to travel some distance to see it. This Eurasian Hoopoe has just been pushed aside from its feeding spot by a Crested Myna – and even a juvenile, what a shame! A Common Moorhen chick, both cute and ugly.

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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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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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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, 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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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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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, 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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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, Noddy and Skimmer accounts are in the back of the book, though according to the 2023 version of Clements, they come before terns, which makes sense since most birders will be using the book to study terns, Skimmer identification in particular is obvious. Black Tern, the third Marsh Tern, gets nine pages. Common Tern 6 (p.

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For example, they have to share it with the Curve-billed Thrasher up at the top of this post. But my personal favorite is the hard-to-find Black-chinned Sparrow , a specialty of this site. This visit, I saw two. Of course, the sparrows can’t have the thorn forest entirely to themselves.

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Ring-necked Parakeets are one example, busily taking apart the seeds of a maple tree in front of our house. Barn Swallow Sand Martin Elsewhere in our local park, it was clear that the nesting activity was in full swing, with many birds flying around with beaks full of food for their chicks.

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Another example is the Chestnut Bulbul … … which looks nice enough, though the eBird description as an “attractive songbird” seems a bit exaggerated. .” Sounds a bit like a Grey-eyed Bulbul once took away the girlfriend of an eBird reviewer, doesn`t it?

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The irony is most apparent when a bird so named is a legitimate rarity – I get excited whenever I see a Common Ground Dove , for example. It seems almost insulting, sure it allows some insight into the abundance of the particular species in a particular area at a point in time, but all birds are rare and exotic somewhere.

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