March 2011 - BirdWatching Field of View
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The colorful male Northern Parula on the cover of our April 2011 issue (right) came to us from long-time contributing photographer Brian E. Small . He lives in Los Angeles, far from the eastern warbler's normal range. So taking this picture required...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed today that Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross that's at least 60 years old , survived the devastating tsunami in the Pacific Ocean. As shown above, the world's oldest documented wild bird was seen feeding...
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Pictured here is the oldest known wild bird in the Northern Hemisphere — a Laysan Albatross known as Wisdom. She is at least 60 years old, and as the photo shows, she is a new mother. The bird was spotted a few weeks ago with a chick by John Klavitter...
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The Burrowing Owl photo on the cover of our February 2011 issue (right) came to us from Neil Losin . Neil is a biologist, photographer, and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. He has written a few articles for us, and he was the grand-prize winner of...
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So many field guides. So many revolutions. The first, of course, was led by painter Roger Tory Peterson (1934), who demonstrated that a shotgun was no longer required to identify birds. The second came from artist David Sibley (2000), who not only showed...
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