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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 19, 2019 - 04:25pm PT
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Have 'em send me a ticket! I'll run a book out to them.
Failing that they should ask around, there's gotta be a few twitchers there.
Ethiopia has a lot of cool boids! 924, give or take a few, with 20 endemics.
Here’s a link to Ethiopia beta:
http://fatbirder.com/links_geo/africa/ethiopia.html
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Abend
Social climber
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Feb 20, 2019 - 12:48pm PT
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Tony-
Thanks for the interesting and educational links. I have observed other birds (cactus wren, road runner) scraping their beaks against rocks to either sharpen or clean them. Because the jay doesn't appear to be attempting to remove the excess beak I have to assume it is not causing it to suffer in any way.
Did you observe a hawk with long-billed syndrome? Frightening that the experts can't nail down the cause.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Feb 20, 2019 - 05:54pm PT
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limpingcrab,
Here is an app that should cover it.
Birds of North Africa
It looks like they have both Android and iOS versions. They make the Sibley and Australia apps that I have used.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 27, 2019 - 05:35pm PT
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First, thanks for the photos.
Beaver activity in Montlake Fill (my main birding venue) has picked up over the last year or two. Don't make me show you chewed logs.
It's not a bird and could use some photoshopping and cropping. Nonetheless:
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Two friends of mine, both climbers, took these photo's recently. I think they are great captures. Both taken in New Hampshire.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Peregrine Falcon- Cathedral Ledge
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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^^^^ WOW! That deserves a caption contest!
How’s this?
“You needed all that crap to get up here?”
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The teacher was telling the kids about the birds and the bees and she explained that when a
man and a woman meet and fall in love, nine months later the stork usually brings them a little
baby from its nest.
Little Johnny at the back of the class put his hand up and asks the teacher "…are you sure
about the stork, miss? I think youre getting your birds mixed up 'cos my big sister just got a
little baby and she said it was from a shag at the beach."
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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ha, ha, ha, that was so funny I almost puked up my anchovies
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 11, 2019 - 11:48am PT
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Help identifying a bird please.
I was in the Santa Susana mountains in sage chaparal. It looked like a Worm Eating Warbler which doesn't exist here. It had the same striped head and pale yellow chest but a longer tail. It had a reasonably long beak that I thought was a wren of some kind except for those head stripes. Any ideas?
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 11, 2019 - 03:21pm PT
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Definitely bigger than that. I am leaning toward it being a cactus wren except that the head was more striped on top and that pale yellow breast.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 11, 2019 - 04:04pm PT
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Western Meadowlark?
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 11, 2019 - 08:40pm PT
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Reilly, you are probably correct. I'm thinking it was an immature male (just like the rest of us).
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Mar 11, 2019 - 09:56pm PT
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john hansen
climber
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Mar 11, 2019 - 10:24pm PT
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Amazing the diversity in the bird world..
Here are some from the Big Island of Hawaii.
Palila
Akipoulu
Hawaiian creeper
Oama
Got to see 12 0f the 13 endemic terrestrial birds on the Big island in one day a couple years back
Saw the Palila a couple weeks before.
Pallila, Nene, I'o ,Pueo,Amakahi , Elepio, I'iwe, Apapane,Hawaii creeper, Oama , Akipoulu, Apapane and the very rare Akepa.
They are doing good work in the Hakalau forest preserve to ensure these bird have viable habitat.
Aloha
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 16, 2019 - 11:33am PT
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Went to Pt Hueneme to find the Ruff.
Did I do well or what?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 16, 2019 - 12:06pm PT
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"Woof!"
Kind of a knock-kneed bloke...
bonus boids…
"It's good to be me!"
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