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Wonderful Wedgies

September 21, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

No, not the terror of the schoolyard, but the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus. The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name...

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Yellow-bellied, bird and birder

September 20, 2011 by Nate 9 Comments

I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. For a long...

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Birds and Belt-sander Racing

by James 9 Comments

Ok, let’s admit that there are many people out there who think of birding as a weird and eccentric pastime. But we’re not alone....

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Kirtland’s Warbler Population Stable

by Corey 4 Comments

There were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009’s 1,813. The population has stabilized with neither increases...

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Millerbirds Moved to Laysan

September 19, 2011 by Corey 3 Comments

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken two dozen critically endangered Millerbirds Acrocephalus familiaris from their home island of Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaii and moved them...

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Birding Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

by Corey 4 Comments

When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site. But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds...

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Italian Sparrow?

by Corey 13 Comments

Really? This is odd and I can’t remember ever having heard of such a thing before. How can two species interbreed into a new...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2011)

by Mike 7 Comments

How was your weekend? North of the equator, we have precious few remaining days where light exceeds darkness. The encroaching darkness instills in me...

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