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But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. For example, last Sunday we found an unusually large bird in one of the nets. I hope to have another experience with ole Bucket Mouth when I’m next out at the nets.
Another weekend brings another example of the climate volatility induced by global warming. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 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.
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For example, a hypothetical National Bulbul would have no chance to get any coverage here. The Eastern Buzzard is an example of how this might happen in reality ( source ). million years (which is a long time for example when watching a boring movie, but not a very long period by the generous standards of evolution).
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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.
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All three of those authors have far more experience than I do and the upcoming releases for next spring, California and Pennsylvania, are written by authors just as illustrious! For example, American Robins don’r really need location information because they are all over the state.
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It centers on the participant’s entire journey and infuses all the things that make up an amazing experience: intrigue, inspiration, influence, impression, interruption and immersion. For example, we have a client that was set on having its event in the same tried-and-true destination, with the same tried-and-true activities.
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It is not a concept for a total beginner, more of a reminder to someone with some experience. For example, from one such entrance I will learn that the Pacific Elaenia , Myiopagis subplacens , is 14 cm long, and that it has indistinct wing edging and blackish ear-coverts.
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For example, if it weren’t for the arrow below would you have any idea that a crab was hiding there? It was an exciting experience to see this heron going about its business from close range, close enough that I could hear the crabs being crushed. Yeah, me neither.
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However, if out of courtesy one of the other woodpeckers switches the talk to another favorite topic, ants, the Ground Woodpecker is happy to share its experience. For example, the Northern Flicker (Reno, USA) is always interested in discussing the nutritional merits of different ant species.
It was an invigorating experience and an example of my favorite kind of birding, that of the spectacle. Please forgive the shakiness of the video below: the wind made it difficult to get the tripod not to shake. The main thing is the number of gannets! It was also cool to get a Coney Island landmark in the background.
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Until recently, I had only seen a few examples of this. I have accused bird-namers of being biased to their United States experience of birds. To make things even more complicated, our possibly hybrid Olive-backed Spotted Towhees can hybridize even further with the Collared Towhee.
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