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By Ted Floyd, on December 4, 2019 First things first: a nostra culpa. The Oct. 2019 Birding went out a while ago, and we simply forgot to post the online version of the photo quiz! In our semi-defense of that oversight, we have been tremendously busy with Birding of late, with four issues going out in the last four months of the [read more…]
By Ted Floyd, on December 3, 2019 What: Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus When: Monday, November 11, 2019 Where: Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas
Without giving it too much thought, What are some of the great places in the ABA Area? Alaska and Hawaii, for starters. The Chiricahuas, the Salton Sea, and the Everglades, needless to say. Cape May and Central Park and [read more…]
By Nate Swick, on December 2, 2019
At Avian Hybrids, Jente Ottenburghs writes that thrush hybrids are far more common and complex that we would have originally imagined.
“Hybridization is not always limited to two species; often multiple species are interbreeding.” This is the first sentence of my recent Avian Research review on multispecies hybridization in birds. In that paper, I [read more…]
By Nate Swick, on November 29, 2019
Rarities continuing into the end of November include a Red-footed Booby (ABA Code 4) in California, a Pink-footed Goose (4) in Nova Scotia and the ridiculously long-staying Antillean Palm-Swift (5) in Florida.
One of the more exciting finds of the week came from Massachusetts, where a Northern Lapwing (4) was seen in Bristol. This is [read more…]
By Nate Swick, on November 28, 2019
The ABA’s 50th Anniversary roadshow rolls on, this time to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival for another LIVE show
Our special bird-themed game show features guest appearances from Birds of North America‘s Jason Ward and Birding magazine editor and podcast stalwart Ted Floyd. Listen in for fun birdy games, Rio Grande Valley anagrams, real [read more…]
By Nate Swick, on November 22, 2019 Continuing rare birds in the ABA Area include the long-staying Antillean Palm-Swift (ABA Code 5) in Florida, still being seen by birders into the last part of November. Multiple Red-footed Boobies (4) are still being reported in California, making for one of the most impressive incursions of this species in recent memory, and a Blue-footed [read more…]
A review by Patricia Paladines and Carl Safina
Ospreys: The Revival of a Global Raptor by Alan Poole
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
220 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14921
When it comes to us and Ospreys, it’s deep and personal. Around 1970, a neighbor took an adolescent Carl to a secret [read more…]
By Ted Floyd, on November 19, 2019 What: Wandering Tattler, Tringa incana When: Friday, October 25, 2019 Where: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, Hawaii
Last year in Birding magazine, we ran a multi-issue series on the birds of Hawaii. Jeffrey A. Gordon started us out in the Feb. 2018 issue with a tribute to the iconic ‘i‘iwi; Lisa Crampton and Helen Raine followed [read more…]
A review by Nick Minor
The Birders: A Melodic Journey through Northern Colombia by Gregg Bleakney
WhereNext, 2019
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As a birder, a communicator, and more simply, a person who just loves a good story, I’m always elated to find media that succeeds at what should be a simple task: depicting birding as birders see [read more…]
By Nate Swick, on November 15, 2019 Notable birds continuing in the ABA Area include a Blue-footed Booby (ABA Code 4) in California and the still present Antillean Palm-Swift (5) in Florida.
This week was lighter on continental rarities, but we do have a 1st record to report in Ohio where a the state’s 1st record of Tropical Kingbird was seen in [read more…]
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Birding Photo Quiz: October 2019
First things first: a nostra culpa. The Oct. 2019 Birding went out a while ago, and we simply forgot to post the online version of the photo quiz! In our semi-defense of that oversight, we have been tremendously busy with Birding of late, with four issues going out in the last four months of the [read more…]