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Keeping Cool in Tierra Caliente

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Birding there can often be a test of endurance. Yellow-winged Caciques , showy members of the Blackbird/New World Oriole family, are always conspicuous residents of the region. A tropical tree called Jocote ( Spondias purpurea ) is in full fruit right now, so almost all of these birds’ ivory bills were dyed a light pink color.

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Come See Birds and…Everything

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The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. The popular stereotype of birders is that we’re obsessives, focused only on the feathered to the exclusion of anything else.

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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As the evenings darken and night draws in, some of us are forced to spend more time at home with our families instead of out in the field. You can set up a test subject and partly obscure it to make a practice piece. Right click on this point on the donor picture. Try also to get exposure as near identical as possible.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

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The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap. So Toews et al.

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Tsunami Pics from Midway Atoll

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10K Birds is Top Ten About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Wicked, right? Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Many thanks to Jason Kopp for the photos above taken during last year’s courses held at Explorer’s Inn Tags: banding , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Wicked, right? Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? Hat-tip to Stella.

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