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Ducks in Autumn

November 13, 2011 by Corey 6 Comments

Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery and rainy, sometimes warm and...

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Tubenose Taxonomy 101

November 10, 2011 by David 9 Comments

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...

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Snowy Egret Fishing at Arcata Marsh

November 9, 2011 by Larry 4 Comments

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had...

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Finding a place for the Piopio

by Duncan 1 Comment

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...

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Tons and tons of them (I like birds)

November 8, 2011 by Dale Forbes 1 Comment

Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...

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Common Birds

November 7, 2011 by Corey 7 Comments

Most birders, myself included, hope to find a rarity or two on every birding outing. This does not happen, of course, because rarities are,...

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Siberian Chiffchaff in the Altai Mountains

November 6, 2011 by Jochen 5 Comments

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s...

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