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What is a Merganser?

January 27, 2012 by Mike 21 Comments

One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving...

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Greater White-fronted Goose at Van Cortlandt Park

January 24, 2012 by Corey 7 Comments

It has been over two months since the Greater White-fronted Goose was found at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City’s northernmost borough, the...

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Decent Pictures of a Belted Kingfisher? Unpossible!

January 23, 2012 by Corey 15 Comments

Almost every birder who has birded within in the range of Megaceryle alcyon, better known as the Belted Kingfisher, knows the drill. The first...

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The long journey home

January 22, 2012 by Clare K 4 Comments

As the Sun creeps closer to the horizon bringing with it more and more twilight my mind turns more to spring and the return...

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Plain Prinia

January 21, 2012 by Redgannet 3 Comments

The Plain Prinia, Prinia inornata is an abundant, widespread resident of the Indian subcontinent and can be found throughout southeast Asia wherever there is...

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Gone Birding: When Nerds Collide

January 20, 2012 by Carrie 4 Comments

One of the great compulsions shared by nearly all varieties of nerd is the desire to share the objects of our obsession with people....

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Tanzanian Starlings, Shrikes, and Weavers (Part 2)

by Walter 5 Comments

STELLAR SHRIKES Shrikes (like this Grey-backed Fiscal) are little wannabe raptors. They are quick and intense, with the requisite taste for lizards, snakes, and...

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