April 2010 - BirdWatching Field of View
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The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico stretches east of Delta National Wildlife Refuge in this satellite image made on Sunday, April 25. Plotted on the photo are several Important Bird Areas that lie in the oil's path. (Photo courtesy NASA Earth Observatory...
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The June 2010 issue of Birder's World, featuring contributions from contributing editors David Sibley, Pete Dunne, Kenn Kaufman, Julie Craves, and other friends, will go on sale on newsstands on Tuesday, May 4. Here are 15 reasons you should ask for...
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Meet Joanne Willey of Creedmoor, North Carolina, the lucky winner of our latest Readers' Favorites Survey . Thanks to our generous partner, Nikon Sport Optics , she will soon receive one sweet pair of birding binoculars -- the Nikon Monarch 8x36....
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BirdersWorld.com is 50 great articles richer today than it was six months ago. Since October, we've added 50 articles about great birding locations in 13 states and one Canadian province: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland...
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Forest meets the beach in this aerial view of Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica. Photo by Michael and Patricia Fogden, Friends of the Osa / Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 Today is Earth Day, and to celebrate, we have a story about Costa Rica's...
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I'm sure you've heard of Ivory-bill hunter, ornithologist, and author Geoffrey Hill . He's been leading a search for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers along the Choctawhatchee River in Florida since 2005. He wrote about the search in February 2007...
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Nature photographer Bill Draker and his wife Sharon were participating in the 2009 Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest in Texas in April 2009 when Bill photographed the stunning male Painted Bunting that appears on our April 2010 issue cover (right)....
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On March 24, a researcher captured the first-ever photo (right) of a living Santa Marta Sabrewing, a spectacular hummingbird found only in the mountains of northeast Colombia. Laura Cárdenas, a biologist with a project called “Crossing the...
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Laura Erickson (right) is the science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the host of a popular radio program about birds , a frequent contributor to our magazine, and a good friend. She recently published The Bird Watching Answer Book , her fourth...
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