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Osprey in Missoula

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The Hellgate Canyon nesting platform has a nestcam trained on it. So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field.

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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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It doesn’t require forest but the coffee farms and scrubby green space it does need are under constant pressure of being destroyed and replaced with urban housing. Carry out workshops and train more people locally on how to do telemetry properly. Check out the video!

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The great green Caribbean lowlands – Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

The 850 hectares / 2,000 acres farm turned into a private reserve is reachable by ordinary cars but once inside, there is a hundred metres / 300 ft drive through a river. But nowadays, wilderness is crawling, sneaking, thriving and flourishing back, occupying every square foot of the farm once again. million acres). million acres).

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Trolling for Cuckoos in Costa Rica

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One such feathered feature was a frogmouth and sure enough, when the footage of said bizarre bird showed, the quiet dark of the theater was interrupted by a quiet exclamation that perfectly echoed my train of thought, “That’s a frogmouth!”

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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan

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Using the entire data (=training set) and a threshold for accepting presence in ANN and LR set to P ?0.5, ANN correctly classified marginally more cases (88%) than either LR (83%) or MDA (84%). Model performance was assessed from two methods of data partitioning.

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Thoughts on Redstarts, an Early Fall Migrant in Costa Rica, 2022

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All habitat is important, especially during these crucial Anthropocene times but wooded riparian zones near houses and farms seem to be especially needed. These ribbons of green are also streams of gold brocade, natural treasures and yet too often overlooked and sadly ignored by eyes trained for television, tablets, and forged plastic.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

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Products to help with dry skin, smells, training, and even fine art pieces were included. For those D-List smells, itches and skin issues comes Farm Dog Naturals’ new line of products, Pet Urine Eco Cleaner, Salvation Dry Skin & Crusty Nose Salve and Restore Itch Relief. There were a lot of other great goodies in the gift bag!

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