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Two silent eastern phoebes in Burcham Park
Where is your patch, the place you bird every day you can? Mine in East Lansing is Burcham Park. I nominated it for a hotspot and so it is on eBird, though so far only I have recorded birds there, … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Michigan, Migration
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Birding the Western Ghats in Southwest India
The Western Ghats! A hottest hot diversity site recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and known also poetically as Sahyadri. The trick is how to penetrate this land of elephants and tigers, past the pot-holed roads and shrines. … Continue reading
Birding as a world citizen: ten tips
My favorite way to bird is related to the slow food movement: stay local, stay focused, and stay appreciative. So how can I keep to my principles when I bird in places as far away as the Western Ghats in … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Environment, India
Tagged birding, Environment, international citizen, Nature
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Mexican-Ecuadoran secrets of the tufted jay, Cyanocorax dickeyi
Don’t you wonder why birds are where they are? Have you been on one of those guided birding trips where you hop in and out of the van spending ten minutes here, or five minutes there, to see the most … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Jays, Mexico
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, birding, caged bird, Ecuador, feather, jay, Mexico, phylogeny
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Scissor-tailed flycatchers at Mount Doom in Missouri
Scissor-tailed flycatchers (Tyrannus forficatus) are highly uncommon in Missouri, but there is a pair nesting right by Mount Doom and yesterday we saw them flying in the distance, against the rocky nuclear waste site. The bird guides do not put … Continue reading
Student-written bird blogs tie experience to scientific literature
The point of the assignment is for you to tie field observations of one species of bird to refereed scientific literature on that bird and write an engaging and scientifically accurate entry that people will enjoy reading. … A couple of hours would be better, but we won’t necessarily have time for that on the field trips, so watch less time if that is your only opportunity to watch. Continue reading
David Sibley brings feminism to birding, speaks on Audubon and Peterson,
He understood the paintings not as scenes from nature, but as compilations of different things the birds might do, in poses as startlingly natural for his time as David’s own females are for our time. … I know authors have to sign books, but I bet David Sibley would have liked to tell us to take the book and get outside, for that is what they are for, a key to nature, best outside. 
Maril Hazlett, Susan Flader, David Sibley, taking questions after their talks. Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Warblers
Tagged Audubon, bird book, conservation, Nature, Peterson, Sibley
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