Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. They...
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In New York, as is the case across most of the area where the “eastern” wood-warblers migrate, there are four species that are almost...
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We can start first with what catbirds are not. Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. Catbirds are also not...
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I am not an ornithologist but this albino finch got my attention. I suspect that it is an incomplete albino since there is some...
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It’s a beautiful day, you’re out birding, and you come across a bird who, instead of perching 20 feet over your head or winging...
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I have never in my life been more glad not to be a bug. … If you liked this post and want to see...
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Though this question is probably only relevant to birders in the midwest and northeast of the United States I feel compelled, like last year,...
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Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves. Their melancholy “no hope,...
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