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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Birdwatching recently reported a paid distribution of about 12,000, and Bird Watcher’s Digest states that its printed magazine “reaches” 25,000 subscribers. If 1 in 100 birders was a member of the ABA, that would pencil out to 1.2 million birders.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. Manker about teaching ornithology in high schools. (It

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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This is far from a novel idea: contributors to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology receive Living Bird magazine, which is also freely available online to everyone. * * *. Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc.

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How Many Birders are There, Really? (Addendum)

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Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. Based on analysis of other information (magazine subscriptions, Facebook “likes,” field guide sales, organizational memberships, etc.),

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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

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Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background. You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Self-drive tour planning. How he prepared for his tour of Serbia? Belgrade – weekend birding break. Top-20 birds.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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