The patch. All birders know what a patch is, and I’m going to do all of us a favor and spare you the definition...
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I love the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. I love birding the area and I love the people–it’s a fantastic combination of crazy birds...
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If I have learned anything from living in the northern half of the United States is that in order to survive winter with my...
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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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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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On the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic, the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on the Upper Coast. But one...
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I am so excited about the announcement of Ted C. MacRae‘s new beetle-based blog carnival, An Inordinate Fondness that I delved into the vault for a...
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I never got around to finishing up my Rio Grande Valley trip report, which is a crime because this last installment is packed with...
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