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| 11/09/07 Coolest Bird on the Planet |
Maybe not everyone's pick for "coolest bird" but certainly
has to be high on the list of coolest bird videos. While you're in the
You-Tube neighborhood check some of the other cool birds.
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| 11/07/07 Back from New Zealand |
A to New Zealand - the two big
islands plus Stewart and a couple of the smaller ones with lots of
pelagics and mountains mixed in. Highly recommended.
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| 10/10/07 Sharp-eyed Warblers |
Biologists at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, have proposed that
migrating Garden Warblers (Sylvia boren) may in some sense "see" magnetic
fields, thus aiding their long migrations. Details can be found at the
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| 10/09/07 Updates To Clements 6th |
Cornell has published the first set of
of Clements World List. Most of the updates/changes/corrections
involve subspecies
but there are some splits, lumps, new species and name changes at the
species level.
An extract of these latter can be found
here .Santa Barbara Software's "Moving from 5th to 6th Edition" with lists of name changes, lumps and splits is . |
| 10/04/07 THE BIRDING COMMUNITY E-BULLETIN |
The October edition of the always interesting and informative newsletter
from Paul Baicich and Wayne Petersen is out with, among other things,
a report on the Arctic Warbler visit to Kern County, CA. A copy is
here
and archives of previous issues are
and
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At the latter sites (National Wildlife Refuge Association and Steiner
Binoculars, sponsors of the newsletter) there's information on subscribing
to the email edition.
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| 09/25/07 New Artist's Site from Spain Birds, Natural History |
There's a new and very attractive site from Spanish artist Francisco J.
Hernadez . The site requires
a Flash plugin but chances are you already have it installed.
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| 09/13/07 New Images |
New in the image rotation are these warblers from Barry Kent Mackay.
Other new warblers from Barry are here:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6.
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