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Mr. Smith’s Longspur

December 27, 2011 by Nate 5 Comments
Gideon B. Smith of Baltimore, Maryland, was not really a birder.  Nor was he an ornithologist.  He was into silkworms, and made much of...
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Southern Parula

December 13, 2011 by Nate 6 Comments
We birders birders on the eastern half of the continent are quite familiar with the ubiquitous Northern Parula, whose buzzy song is often one...
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The parrots you have, not the parrots you wish you had

November 29, 2011 by Nate 10 Comments
We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel called the Carolina Parakeet that...
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The Lingerers

November 1, 2011 by Nate 7 Comments
I think most of us in North America have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that fall migration is pretty much finished for the...
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Slowing down Chimney Swifts

October 18, 2011 by Nate 2 Comments
When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology professor.  I always thought it...
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State firsts I have known (and one I haven’t)

October 4, 2011 by Nate 7 Comments
There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run of first state records for...
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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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Correcting course in Appalachia

September 6, 2011 by Nate No Comments
The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to the fir covered forests of...
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