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| 06/27/2008 On Feathered Wings Birds in Flight |
For your summer viewing: there's a very handsome new book available
written by Richard Ettlinger with photographs by the author, Rob Palmer, Miquel
Lasa and K.K. Hui. Many of the images are truly astonishing. Raptors,
unsurprisingly, get most of the space, but
shore, sea and wetland birds, along with a few songbirds, are also
presented. The text is informative but it's the photographs that
make the book. For more on "On Feathered Wings" see
here.
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| 06/23/2008 New, Skinny, Convenient eBird Summaries |
In preparation for the ""internet-in-your-pocket" era here are a couple
of skinny-format eBird summary pages. The first,
eBirdSidebar,
uses Javascript behind the scenes and so might not work on many mobile
devices (maybe the iPhone) but is convenient when opened in a browser
sidebar (for more convenience, put a bookmark to it in your "personal"
bookmarks bar). The second, eBirdSummary,
is plain-old-html (no maps) and should do fine in most mobiles (but also works
in a sidebar). Both of these, as well as the previously released
eBirdMap are updated hourly.
Let me know
how it works, or doesn't, on your mobile.
Don't forget to register with eBird
and submit your
observations faithfully.
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| 06/12/08 A New Field Guide songs and calls included |
Ted Floyd, editor of the ABA's "Birding", has written
The Smithsonian
Field Guide to Birds of North America. It's very handsome--photographs
rather than drawings, range maps, call and behavior descriptions, and essays
on groups. It's light enough to carry and reasonably priced. What sets
it apart from most other field guides is the accompanying DVD which contains
500+ vocalizations for 138 species; an image of the relevant bird is
embedded in each sound file. This makes it easy to transfer image and sound
to iTunes or iPod and see the bird as you
listen to the song.
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| 06/05/08 June Bulletin |
The latest "Birding Community Electronic Bulletin" is
here
with many informative and entertaining bits including the
visit to Delaware of a Wood Sandpiper. More on the sighting
can be found at
Jeff Gordon's Flickr site.
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| 04/17/08 Woodland Birds of North America a new guide |
A very fine guide-but-not-a-field-guide is "Woodland Birds of North America",
a paperback written by and with terrific photographs by Scott Leslie. More
than 100 woodland species are presented with each entry including short but
information-packed paragraphs on appearance, habitat, behavior, calls,
food, family life and conservation concerns. Further information is
here .
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| 04/03/08 Kenya Birding Today |
I received the following email today:From isabelnanton Wed Apr 2 22:11:06 2008 Subject: Birding in Kenya I just returned from my homeland, after 10 weeks during which the country went through post-election upheavals. At no time, while there, was my activities as a keen, but amateur birder disrupted. In fact, there has probably never been a better time to go birding in Kenya: the parks are empty, Kenyans' tourism industry has been decimated by the media reports and yet, the birding remains some of the most rewarding on the planet... I hope keen birders will feel encouraged to book that trip to Kenya and help in the restoration of the tourism economy (each Kenyan employed supports 8-10 people) and keeps those lovely birds visible. isabel nanton journalist |
| 04/01/08 Bermuda Petrel comes back |
BirdLife International
reports on the
encouraging comeback of the once-thought-to-be-lost-forever
Bermuda Petrel. Thanks to Dot Robbins for spreading the news.
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| 03/31/08 Buy My House |
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Having concluded that it's time to consolidate and simplify but
unwilling to leave the world's best neighborhood for some bucolic
"retirement village" we're leaving our house of 36 years for a
6th floor aerie 2 blocks away. So the house is FOR SALE (picture from
street-- 426 S 47th St, 19143; picture of house from new place-- 4631
Pine St, 19143 ). It's within minutes of birding
at Bartram's Garden and Heinz (Tinicum) NWR and an easy daytrip
to birding locations from Sandy Hook to Cape May to Bombay Hook.
Write
if interested for further details.
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| 03/21/08 A New Peterson Field Guide for Birds Scheduled for August |
Last night at the DVOC (Delaware Valley Ornithology Club) meeting Jeff
Gordon spoke about (among other things) the forthcoming (August) modernized
edition of the classic Peterson field guide and showed us one of the
videos that will be downloadable by purchasers. I was much impressed -
there are the classic Peterson touches (little arrows, etc) but enhanced
by voice-overs, compare-and-contrasts, and birdsong/call audios on demand.
Watch the
Houghton Mifflin site
and Jeff's blog
to see if video examples
show up.
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