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My Favorite 5 Bird Nests: Redefining Home Construction

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link] , via Wikimedia Commons Ovenbirds are native to South America, particularly in countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, where they inhabit open fields and forest edges. The Ovenbird Nest ( Furnarius rufus ): The Clay Fortress Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Great Great Grebe.

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From southern Brazil on the east coast, it extends down through Uruguay and Argentina as far as the cape. The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. The nominate is found to the west in Chile with a separate population in NW Peru.

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Lockdown Serendipity

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The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a mostly solitary vulture, found from Uruguay to Mexico. Indeed, it is a bird that supposedly should not even have been in the state of Guerrero, much less in the city of Acapulco. There’s something about that face. In contrast, TurkeyVulture heads are nothing but red.

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Birding Hokkaido

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Photographs taken on these travels and locally have been published in several field guides, including the Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding , Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight , and Birds of Argentina & Uruguay: A Field Guide.

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I’m Not Hanging Noodles On Your Ears

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When dogs were tied with sausages>a very long time ago (Spanish, Uruguay). To put a cat over oneself>to feign ignorance (Japanese). To make a cat’s laundry>to wash superficially (German). Like a dog in a canoe>to be very nervous (Spanish, Puerto Rico). To hang all the dogs>to blame someone else (Russian).

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Red-legged Seriema

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Red-legged Seriema, Cariama cristata , can be seen in Brazil and Uruguay and overlap with the Black-legged Seriema in Northern Argentina and Paraguay. 10,000 Clicks: Photo-galleries and ID Features.

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

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I wondered about whether that could be extrapolated for the region (Santa Fe) or even the whole southern part of its range (Argentina and Uruguay). A couple of articles suggested it may be migratory, in the southern part of its range, but then I found one recent Argentine article that stated categorically that it was in one site.

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