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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Science, Citizen Science, and Citizen Savagery

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Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

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It is apparently uncommon across most of its wide range in the shrublands of South America, little noticed and little noted, and sources are pretty thin, as they are for many birds in places like South America. From a three line stub it now has a full article. One mystery was its movements.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. Wood storks primarily breed in Central and South Florida. The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. However, birds in the U.S.

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Fall Migration on Facebook

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By checking my Facebook feed on a daily basis, I had a broad idea about birds arriving into different countries in Central and South America. This is by no means an exact science. I have Facebook friends and belong to multiple bird related Facebook groups throughout South America. Black-throated Blue Warbler.

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Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide

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Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

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Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. This was on Gondwana. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked!

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Will parrots and falcons soon be moved around in your field guide?

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So comparisons of bill shapes, foot shapes, and the like can certainly stimulate the imagination, but we need rigorous science to explore and synthesize more molecular work, morphological analysis, and biogeographical hypotheses in order to close more gaps in our understanding. What do you think?

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