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California Quail, The California State Bird: Now Forming Coveys

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They are part of a family of New World Quail which includes Gambel’s, Mountain, Scaled and Montezuma Quail, as well as the Northern Bobwhite. The family stays very close to cover for several weeks, getting bolder as the young develop. The family group pictured below has been visiting my yard recently.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Here is a basic how-to video. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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” Then, I heard a Ruffed Grouse drumming with its wings and only its wings, and watched a video of ornithologist Kim Bostwick moonwalking with Red-capped Manakins and heard my friend John describe a Bowerbird enticing a mate with home decoration techniques, and I thought, “Birds! And, that’s it.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. The Marvelous Spatuletail as it appears in a video about The Glitter in the Green. link] © 2021 Jon Dunn.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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African Pygmy Geese – Diminutive Ducks

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When I read somewhere that Pygmy Geese were not actually geese at all I started doing some research. True geese belong to the tribe or sub-family Anserini within the larger family Anatidae that encompasses ducks, geese and swans. These birds are far-removed from geese in the true sense of the word. v=hmyBwVmo0N4 a.

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