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What is the American Bird Conservancy Anyway?

December 9, 2003 by Mike No Comments
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a non-profit organization whose...
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Birding

What’s In A Name?

December 2, 2003 by Mike No Comments
The Vineyard Gazette has been Martha’s Vineyard’s newspaper of record...
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Blogging

10,000 Birds Month in Review: November 2003

November 30, 2003 by Mike No Comments
Sara and I, collectively known as the Core Team, enjoyed...
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Storm-petrels and Science

November 26, 2003 by Mike No Comments
There is a great article in Wired magazine about the...
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Birding

Reason To Become a Bird Watcher #8: The Element Of Surprise

November 25, 2003 by Mike No Comments
One lesson any observer of the natural world learns quickly...
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‘Swan Rare Sighting

November 24, 2003 by Mike No Comments
Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of...
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Trips

The Point Is Birding

November 22, 2003 by Mike No Comments
We’ve been writing about holiday gifts for birders all week,...
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Trips

Looking For Apples, We Get Oranges

November 16, 2003 by Mike No Comments
One of the inviolable truths of birding is that you...
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Birds

West Nile Violence

November 12, 2003 by Mike No Comments
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported yesterday that last winter,...
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Terminology

Look To The Lores

November 11, 2003 by Mike No Comments
While waxing eloquent about the Red-bellied Woodpecker, I described the...
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Conservation

Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

July 17, 2011 by Julie 66 Comments
As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources...
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Green Herons and their Groovy Necks

by Mike 24 Comments
Back when we used to run the 10,000 Birds ID...
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Trips

Birding Los Naranjos Archaeological Park

March 6, 2009 by Corey 11 Comments
Well, I am back in New York now and reliving...
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Trips

Stalking the Piermont Snowy Owl

January 30, 2007 by Mike 11 Comments
In my previous post , I described a moderately successful...
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Birds

Do Birds Have Penises?

April 23, 2012 by Birdchick 23 Comments
Warning, if you can’t tell by the title of the...
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Birds

Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

March 25, 2016 by Suzie 41 Comments
The answer is: no. No hawk can carry off a...
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Domestic or Manky Mallards

February 28, 2011 by Mike 23 Comments
Years ago, Charlie Moores coined the colorful term “manky mallard” to...
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Birds

What is a Mockingbird?

April 23, 2007 by Mike 536 Comments
Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, a group of...
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