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Boring Winter Birding?

January 17, 2011 by Alan 1 Comment

When winter settles down birding can occasionally seem a little repetitive, even the Internet forums and blogs can dry up with little new material....

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Finding and Identifying a California Gnatcatcher

January 15, 2011 by Corey 5 Comments

One great aspect of visiting southern California in winter is that birds are everywhere that there is even marginal habitat. On my trip we...

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Jacamars in Ecuador

by Renato 9 Comments

The Amazon is the best place to see jacamars, so my wife and I were very happy to find a few of these large-insect...

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Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds

January 14, 2011 by Carrie 19 Comments

Georg Wilhelm Steller was never in the Rockies in the first place. Also, he has been dead for more than 250 years now. Many...

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A Quick Quiz

by Corey 23 Comments

Here is a very quick quiz for those of you with a short attention span. This quiz is simple, straightforward, and to the point,...

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Mystery Egg In The Snow

January 12, 2011 by Birdchick 7 Comments

I read a news report on Tuesday that said 70% of the contiguous United States had snow cover. Up in Minnesota, it’s a whole...

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Bravest Penguin EVER!

January 11, 2011 by Corey 5 Comments

There are penguins and then there are penguins. This particular penguin, a Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua, is one heck of a brave (or foolhardy)...

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Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen

by David 30 Comments

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

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