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Category: Aves (birds)
All of my Bird Book Reviews are Here, and some of the reviews include broader discussions that go beyond the book, so do browse through them. Feeding Birds: Should you even be feeding the birds to begin with? Birders get annoyed at squirrels for obvious...
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Category: Aves (birds)
What kind of birding binoculars do you use? How do you chose a good model? Obviously, the best way to pick out a pair of binoculars is to try them out, but in doing so, I strongly urge you to try at least a couple...
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Category: Books-Birds
Birds of North America and Greenland by Norman Arlott: New and reviewed.
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Category: Books
The Atlas of Birds by Mike Unwin: The perfect holiday gift for your favorite birder!
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Category: Books
Birds don't live in nests. They make nests for specific purposes, use them for that purpose, then abandon them. Or, sometimes they don't abandon them, but rather add on and use them again and again, but in between they don't live in or on them....
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Category: Books
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, many of our birds fly away in the fall. Other, very cool birds from even farther north, depending on where you live then arrive. But just about now, where I live, we are at the tail end of the migration...
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Category: Climate Change
Rapid climate change can cause species extinction. But if a species is highly mobile or wide-ranging, then that effect may be attenuated. And, more rapid climate change would be more serious a problem than less rapid climate change. Therefore, there should be a relationship between...
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Category: Aves (birds)
Повідомлення у блозі я написав для 10 тисяч птахів, з питань міграції, був переведений березня Ruszkowski на український Langauge, і доступний для Вас, щоб прочитати тут: Питання про міграцію Я сподіваюся, що ви любите читати його стільки, скільки я сподобалося писати його! Я не знаю,...
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Category: Aves (birds)
People who watch birds identify them, and that process is integral to what makes birding interesting. But the best practices for identifying birds appear on the face of it to conflict with evolutionary concepts of birds, and this can lead to both sloppy thinking and...
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Category: Books-Birds
I've recently reviewed bird or nature books for some fairly exotic places (see this for all the reviews) including the Antarctic and the West Indies. Now, I have a book on the birds of one of the most exotic places ever: New Jersey! OK, if...
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