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Birds on the move

April 3, 2011 by Clare M 5 Comments

At the moment we are observing thousands of shorebirds leave from Roebuck Bay each evening and head north on migration. Our home is actually...

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Common Tailorbird

April 2, 2011 by Redgannet 20 Comments

The Common Tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius, is a small warbler whose range extends from India to southern China and down into Indonesia. It is common,...

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Short-eared Owl at Plum Beach, Brooklyn

March 31, 2011 by Corey 6 Comments

Way back on the first day of March, Doug, who is a good birder and a decent guy despite his Brooklyn roots, and I...

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Regarding Kakariki

March 30, 2011 by Duncan 8 Comments

One of the joys of blogging for a widely read blog is that it gives one a platform on which to moan and complain...

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Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus

March 29, 2011 by Corey 17 Comments

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky. It sometimes looks like a gull built from a child’s...

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Plate-billed Mountain Toucans

March 26, 2011 by Renato 10 Comments

These large-nosed avian pearls live at surprisingly high altitude; I have seen them as high as 2800 meters and as low as 1800 meters. ...

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What is the National Bird of Sweden?

March 25, 2011 by Corey 5 Comments

The national bird of Sweden is the Blackbird Turdus merula, otherwise known as the Common Blackbird or Eurasian Blackbird, though, of course, in Sweden...

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