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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2014)

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Patrick’s Day by doing more than donning green didn’t “celebrate” so much this weekend that you’re suffering today. When I saw a Turkey Vulture soaring serenely over the frozen tundra of Rochester last month, I took the sighting as an example of how confused, in a potentially fatal way, some birds can get.

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Varied Sittellas at Langi Crossing

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Examples are the fairywren species and the Varied Sittella. They are only 10-11cm long, so one of the smallest birds in Australia and if you are suffering from presbycusis you will be relying on your eyesight for any little bit of movement. I always seem to hear some of the smaller shriller sounding birds, which Grant does not.

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Diabolical Early Spring Migrants Quiz

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For example, if you think one of the birds is a Song Sparrow then type just that, not “sparrow” or anything else.) Guess or suffer! As usual, you are to put your answers in the comments. Please identify which image each of your guesses correlates to by number and give the full common name of each bird you are guessing.

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Sneeze Prone? Top 5 Dogs for Allergy Suffers

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Thus it’s important that you interact with the dog you are considering adopting—for example visit and play with it a few times at the shelter—before making a commitment and signing all of the paper work. That said, below are some really good choices allergy-sufferers should consider adopting: 1. Miniature/ Toy Poodle.

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Beak Deformities

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Chickadees for example, primarily eat seeds, if the bill is misshapen to the extent that they cannot open up the seeds, they cannot eat. Ed - To see the range of birds that suffer beak deformities, check out the amazing Birds with deformed bills gallery on Flickr! ) Well, there are several reasons why.

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Not enough Woodpeckers

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. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Celebrate Birding Tourism This Month with 10,000 Birds

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Far too many of the guides, operators, lodges, and attractions we as birders love suffered the economic impact of the coronavirus as keenly as anyone and far worse than most. The entirely reasonable choice most people made to just-stay-home coupled with a patchwork of closed and open borders hit ecotourism interests hard.

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