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We asked participants in a recent cover survey to send questions that Contributing Editor Julie Craves could answer in her popular column Since You Asked in our upcoming December issue. The response was amazing! We received far more interesting questions than Julie could address in the December issue, so we're jumping right in and answering questions for her. We'll answer more on the blog and in future issues of our newsletter. David Ruehl of Sanford, Florida, asked: Do owls migrate? I love
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We asked participants in a recent cover survey to send questions that Contributing Editor Julie Craves could answer in her popular column "Since You Asked" in our upcoming December issue. The response was amazing! We received far more interesting questions than Julie could address in the December issue, so we're jumping right in and answering questions for her. We'll answer more on the blog and in future issues of our newsletter. Jackie Marchetti of Edwards, Colorado, asked: "Is
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The Department of the Interior on August 4 granted Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval of its plan to begin drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean next summer. The proposed drill sites, four in all, are located in the Beaufort Sea about 20 miles offshore from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Read the New York Times story .) The approval inevitably raises a question: How hard would it be to clean up an oil spill in the Beaufort Sea? The answer, from a report prepared for the government
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What’s your favorite part of the Great Blue Heron? The long legs? That heavy bill? Those big wings? We can’t get enough of them! We found the five below in our online photo galleries . Visit our photo galleries. We occasionally choose subjects for “Friday Photos” by polls conducted on Facebook. Why don’t you join the fun? “Like” us on Facebook. See the contents of our August 2011 issue. In-flight: Ted Busby snapped this photo as a Great Blue Heron flew in
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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 subjects for “Friday Photos” by polls conducted on Facebook. Why don’t you join the fun? “Like” us on Facebook. See the contents of our August 2011 issue. Downy Woodpeckers: This photo from RaptorFan allows you to compare
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Filed under: bird photography, woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Gila Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, woodpeckers, Acorn Woodpecker
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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 Gallinule . Photo by Lois Manowitz The American Ornithologists’ Union , the body responsible for English bird names and scientific nomenclature, has again paved the way for a new edition of your favorite field guide. Recognizing a recent series
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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 of the world." Charles Darwin wrote these words a few years after the discovery of Archaeopteryx , the so-called "first bird." He might say the same thing today because, in a groundbreaking discovery, paleontologists from China report
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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 name to see more of his or her photos. Won't you please share your photos of owls (and other birds) with us? To do so, you must be registered on www.BirdWatchingDaily.com and have a valid screen name. Register here. After you have registered
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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 them! Click on the photographer’s name to see more of his or her photos. If you have a suggestion for a future “Friday Photos” theme, please leave a comment. You can share your photos of hawks with us too. To do so, you must be registered
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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 name to see more of his or her photos. You can share your photos with us too. To do so, you must be registered on www.BirdWatchingDaily.com and have a valid screen name. Register here. After you have registered, choose the gallery in which
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Filed under: bird photography, Wood Duck, Northern Mockingbird, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Sandpiper, leucism, leucistic, atypical
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