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What is a Blue Goose?

January 14, 2015 by Larry 2 Comments

The “Blue Goose” is the dark morph of the Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens). Click on photos for full sized images. Color morphs are controlled...

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How to Tell a Lesser Black-backed Gull from a Great Black-backed Gull

January 12, 2015 by Corey 8 Comments

When you ask someone who is into gulls for help identifying a specific bird the conversation can get horribly dull amazingly quickly. Molt, windows,...

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Kingbirds, eBird, and the Quest for Knowledge

January 9, 2015 by Carrie 1 Comment

Somehow, the Couch’s Kingbird is still there. Or was as of yesterday, according to the New York birding list serv. Given that a lively...

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Whoo-Hoo! Green Heron is the 2015 American Birding Association Bird of the Year!

January 5, 2015 by Corey 4 Comments

My lobbying must be more effective than I thought because the Green Heron has been named as the American Birding Association Bird of the...

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Black-faced Spoonbill

January 3, 2015 by Redgannet 3 Comments

The story of the Black-faced Spoonbill is one of recovery. Hurray! From a global low of less than 300 birds in the late 80’s,...

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

January 2, 2015 by Suzie No Comments

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue, a...

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Northern Flicker Intergrade in California

December 31, 2014 by Larry 4 Comments

The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is the third largest woodpecker in North America if you count the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It is smaller than the...

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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

December 28, 2014 by David 5 Comments

The colorful Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands,...

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