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#ABArare - Little Egret - Newfoundland
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On May 18, Pierre Ryan found a pair of egrets in Fair Haven, Newfoundland, and reported the pair as Snowy Egrets, which are rare but annual in the province. His photos and description of the birds' plumes led to suspicion that one or both of these birds may be ABA... Continue reading
Posted 10 hours ago at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Slate-throated Redstart - Arizona
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On May 18 an ABA Code 4 Slate-throated Redstart was discovered by P.D. Hulce at the Southwestern Research Station at Cave Creek Canyon in Cochise, Arizona. The bird was refound later and seen by several people, hopefully suggesting that this one will stick around for a little bit. photo by... Continue reading
Posted 16 hours ago at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Green Sandpiper, Tundra Bean-Goose - Alaska
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The Alaska rarity season is off and running with a couple nice Asian vagrants found in the last couple days. Continue reading
Posted yesterday at ABA Blog
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Rare Bird Alert: May 17, 2013
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A short intro this week, one that was defined generally by two phenomena. First, the wind out of the southwest has been pretty much constant for the last several days, the result being that there have been a ton of western birds turning up in the east, particularly around the... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Purple Sandpiper - Alberta
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On May 9th, photographer Eddy Matuod found and photographed an unusual sandpiper at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary, Alberta. He was uncertain as to its identity, suspecting either Rock or Purple Sandpiper, and posted his find to the provincial listerv, where the identification seemed to galvinaize around Purple Sandpiper, a... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at ABA Blog
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The ABA at Kachemek Bay
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Jeff and Liz were up in Homer, Alaska, this past week for the Kachemek Bay Shorebird Festival, where Jeff gave the keynote address. The event is, by all account, a huge event for the Alaska birding and conservation community, and is the sold-out crowds are any indication, one of the... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #134
The newest edition of I and the Bird is up at 10,000 Birds featuring vultures, of both the New and Old Worlds: That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. Feathers can attract gunk, and... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at ABA Blog
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2013 AOU Check-list Committee Proposals - Part 3
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They're coming fast now. Not much more than a week after the second batch of proposals drops comes the third. Thanks to Morgan Churchill for keeping on top of the AOU's actions and posting them on the ABA's Facebook Discussion Group. The disclaimers that should be second nature by now... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at ABA Blog
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Rare Bird Alert: May 10, 2013
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We may finally, at long last, be seeing something that looks sort of like spring arriving across the United States and Canada. I don't want to jinx it though, being as that the season has been incredibly volatile this year, so I'll change he subject to something much less prone... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Introducing Birders' Marketplace!
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The ABA introduces Birders' Marketplace, classified ads by birders and for birders. Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at ABA Blog
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In Quebec, it's most likely that you're seeing Scarlet Tanagers rather than Hepatic.
Toggle Commented May 8, 2013 on #ABArare - Hepatic Tanager - Saskatchewan at ABA Blog
Blog Birding #133
Swainson's Thrushes come in two varieties, "Russet-backed" and "Olive-backed". They look rather different and, as Nathan Pieplow explains at Earbirding, they sound rather different too: I grew up seeing hundreds of Swainson’s Thrushes in South Dakota each spring — all birds of the “Olive-backed” persuasion, though I had no idea... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at ABA Blog
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The Passenger Pigeon Returns, in a Documentary
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Extinct birds are hot right now. Or at least the general public seems to be particularly open to hearing the lessons we can learn from their stories. Hot on the heels of The Lost Bird Project, which debuted on public television not long ago, a new documentary, From Billions to... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at ABA Blog
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2013 AOU Check-list Committee Proposals - Part 2
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The second round of AOU Check-list proposals was released last week. The entire South America heavy set is available at the AOU website here (.pdf), but just like last time I'll keep the focus on those that will potentially affect the ABA-Area. The same disclaimer applies as well. It's important... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Not showing up for me.
Toggle Commented May 4, 2013 on Rare Bird Alert: May 3, 2013 at ABA Blog
Thanks, Steve. Not having seen the photo, I had nothing to go on but the report.
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Rare Bird Alert: May 3, 2013
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The birds are back in a big way this week. Everything is back from coast to coast. Migrant movement has been heavy in the last seven days, particularly in the big middle of the continent, but those birds have seen rough going. Winter continues to have a stubborn hold on... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Teddy Roosevelt's Complete Checklist
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Naturalist, birder, and lister Teddy Roosevelt. Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Black-faced Grassquit - Florida
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Bill Baggs State Park in Miami-Dade, Florida, continues to attract some great Caribbean strays, as close to a perfect representation of the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect as we've seen in recent memory. On April 30, Iwe, Pia, Bert, and Sybrand de Bruin discovered a female ABA Code-4 Black-faced Grassquit right... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at ABA Blog
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ABA Blog in Review: April 2013
April means spring. It means the return of neotropic migrants and mornings filled with birdsong and millions of feathered things moving here and there, but always northward. It's a truly great time of year to be a birder. It was a good month here at the ABA Blog too, here... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #132
Michele Berger, writing at Audubon's blog The Perch, reviews The Birder's Guide to Everything, which just finished second for the Audience Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival: When 15-year-old David Portney, an angst-filled bird lover played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, thinks he spots the extinct Labrador duck, he snaps a few... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Baikal Teal - Montana
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Not much more than an hour ago, Radd Icenoggle discovered a gorgeous male ABA Code-4 Baikal Teal at the Maclay Irrigation Canal, just outside of Maclay Recreation Area near Missoula, Montana. This is not only a continental level rarity but a potential state first for Montana as well. photo used... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2013 at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Short-tailed Hawk - Georgia
Georgia's first record - and one of only a few outside of Fl, TX, and AZ - of Short-tailed Hawk was photographed yesterday in Hinesville. Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2013 at ABA Blog
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The Biggest ABA-Area Big Day Ever
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An enthusiastic round of applause is in order for our friends on Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Team eBird who put together the most impressive ABA-Area Big Day ever this past Thursday, finding an almost unbelievable 294(!!!) species in a 24 hour period. That absurd total is a full 30 species... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2013 at ABA Blog
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There was so much going on on that listserv I missed them. OI'll be sure to include them next time.
Toggle Commented Apr 26, 2013 on Rare Bird Alert: April 26, 2013 at ABA Blog
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