It’s a sometimes-painful fact of life that some fruits are easier to cope with as food than others. This condition applies to making fermented...
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It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how Frank Chapman invented this...
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Christmas morning I looked out my window and saw something I had only seen once before in my backyard, a Phainopepla! I watched as...
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How many species have I observed this year? The malicious eBird answers: only 186! Yuck! Yes, I know, I’ll reach 190, but 200? No...
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(All respectable publications should have their holiday traditions. This evergreen post, first written in 2004, has become a 10,000 Birds staple. Merry Christmas!) Everybody...
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The broadbills are always a family* that birders visiting South East Asia want to see, and who could blame them? They usually take up...
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Tropical Kingbird is likely to be one of the last birds I see in 2012 and first I see in 2013. Not a hard bird...
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This is is the most magical time of the year, one filled with holiday cheer, festive celebrations, and… surveys of winter avifauna? That’s right!...
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