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Birds

My Favorite Release

October 24, 2014 by Suzie 1 Comment

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep...

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An odd foraging behavior for a Vulture

October 23, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 4 Comments

New World vultures of the genus Cathartes (Greater Yellow-headed, Lesser Yellow-headed and Turkey Vultures) look much alike. Greater and Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures are so...

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Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County

October 22, 2014 by Larry 1 Comment

This past weekend I took a trip to the small town of Portola in Plumas county for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted...

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Chasing cuckoos

by Duncan 2 Comments

While I sometimes complain about the lack of variety of birds in New Zealand, there are at least some birds here that are a)...

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How smart are parrots?

October 21, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog “Nebo.” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete...

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I Want This Bird to be Something…

October 20, 2014 by Corey 12 Comments

Two weeks after finding a Say’s Phoebe at Edgemere Landfill in the company of my family I convinced them to return to Edgemere yesterday afternoon for...

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Tanagers of Hotel do Ype, Itatiaia.

October 11, 2014 by Redgannet 3 Comments

About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park. The endemic-rich Mata Atlantica,...