Month: August 2014

Birding

Europe’s Brown Warblers: a map through the maze

August 31, 2014 by Jochen 5 Comments

If, by a chain of peculiar events or by purposeful decision, you find yourself somewhere in central Europe, you sooner or later will not be...

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Palmerston birding

by Clare M 1 Comment

Following on from our long drive from Broome to Kununurra, where we visited the Poo Ponds before catching up on sleep, we headed on...

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“Winged Warnings” Sounds the Avian Alarm

August 30, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

When birds go from Least Concern to Near-Threatened to Vulnerable to Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature scale of species viability,...

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Bokmakierie

by Redgannet 1 Comment

I have never quite made up my mind how this beautiful bush-shrike’s name should be pronounced. I favour stressing the penultimate syllable with a...

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of August 2014?

August 29, 2014 by Mike No Comments

Keep your eyes to the skies for chickadees and tits Ready to close the books on the summer of 2014, northerners? We in the...

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

by Suzie 4 Comments

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. To civilians who may have...

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

August 28, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 2 Comments

The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow...

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Mountain Chickadees at Lassen Volcanic National Park

August 27, 2014 by Larry 1 Comment

Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli) are a conspicuous cavity nester and one of the 96 species of birds that nest in Lassen Volcanic National Park....

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