July 2011 - BirdWatching Field of View
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Visitors to our online photo galleries have uploaded lots and lots of great photos of woodpeckers. Here are five that caught our eye. Click on a photographer’s name to see more of his or her photos. Visit our photo galleries. We occasionally choose...
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This bird, photographed at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson, Arizona, was formerly known as Common Moorhen. Now, following a determination by the American Ornithologists' Union that it is separate from the Common Moorhen of Eurasia, its name is Common...
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This depiction of the newly described dinosaur Xiaotingia zhengi shows what it might have looked like. © 2011 Xing Lida and Liu Yi "Hardly any recent discovery shows more forcibly than this how little we as yet know of the former inhabitants...
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Owls are often charming, at times haunting, and always beautiful, but they can be hard to find and even harder to photograph. That's why we like the photos below so much. We found each one in our online photo galleries . Click on the photographer’s...
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At once beautiful and fierce, and capable of truly majestic flight, hawks never fail to thrill us. And lucky for us, they can be photogenic as well. We’ve chosen a handful of excellent shots from our online photo galleries below. We hope you like...
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It can happen to you: You see a bird. The shape is familiar. The size looks right. Even the song matches what you expect. But the color? Take a look at this selection of unnaturally white birds from our online photo galleries . Click on the photographer’s...
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A C-130 military cargo plane drops fire retardant over Frijoles Canyon to protect ancient ruins in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Photographed on June 27 by Jayson Coil We noted last week that the Las Conchas Fire , the largest wildfire in New...
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Research published in Ecosphere , a new open-access journal of the Ecological Society of America, adds scientific support to the widely held assumption that the welfare of the Red Knot, a small, at-risk shorebird, is directly tied to horseshoe-crab populations...
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Wow. 181 million. That's how many times the images provided by the webcam pointed at the Bald Eagle nest in Decorah, Iowa , had been viewed as of Friday morning. I know because I was one of the viewers. The nest, in a cottonwood tree on private property...
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Too often the birds we see are far away, so it’s a treat to see them up close, as they are in the five in-your-face close-ups below. Visitors to BirdWatchingDaily.com posted them in our online photo galleries . Click on a photographer’s name...
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