tagged w/ Bird watching
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Which of the two very similar looking North American species is this bird?[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County,... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you identify this stunning species? If so, I have asked a few more questions about this species on the linked page that you might know the answers to.[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County,... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you ID this lovely little bird?[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County,... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed in Lyman County, South Dakota. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Is this gorgeous bird more difficult to ID than you first think?[Mystery bird] photographed in Lyman County, South Dakota. [I will identify this bird... more
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary, Houston, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you identify this species and tell me more about its distinctive beak shape?Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at... more
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Gorgeous bird, stunning pic, can you name this species?Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This mysterious "little brown job" might be more spectacular than your eyes tell you it is![Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County,... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This bird is part of a species complex, can you name this particular species?[Mystery bird] photographed at Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, Brazoria County,... more
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you tell me why this bird's tail is so short?Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at... more
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed Ndutu Safari Lodge, Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you name an import to North American that is in the same taxonomic family as this African species?Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed Ndutu... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This is a challenging bird to identify, so I am asking you to instead try to identify the taxonomic family.[Mystery bird] photographed in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, Africa. [I will... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed in a Houston backyard in Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Today is bird body parts day: What does this bird's beak tell you about its diet?[Mystery bird] photographed in a Houston backyard in Texas. [I will identify this bird... more
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston County, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you identify this large but surprisingly elegant species?Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] photographed at... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge, Eagle Lake, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This is a common North American bird, but the angle is weird, can you ID the species?[Mystery bird] photographed at Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge, Eagle Lake, Texas. [I... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed lying motionless in the afternoon sun in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Can you identify this Africa species, tell me what it's doing and why, and how it got its weird common name?[Mystery bird] photographed lying motionless in the afternoon sun in Tarangire... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed on the roadside in the Edinburg, Texas in The Lower Rio Grande Valley. This valley occurs at the boundary between the United States and Mexico. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This feather includes a series of questions that ask you to speculate on the bird's life style just by looking at this one feather (yes, you CAN do this!).[Mystery bird] photographed on the roadside in the Edinburg, Texas in The Lower Rio... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed at Corbett Tiger Reserve (also known as the Jim Corbett National Park), northeast of Delhi in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains of India. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Harry Potter fans will especially like this mystery bird -- can you identify the species?[Mystery bird] photographed at Corbett Tiger Reserve (also known as the Jim Corbett... more
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[Mystery bird] photographed in Houston, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] This bird will knock your socks off, can you name the species? can you answer the additional questions i've asked about this species?[Mystery bird] photographed in Houston, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in... more
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April is the peak month of spring migration for millions of birds, so the ongoing eruption of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, presents hundreds of millions of birds with an unusually challenging set of circumstances as they fly to their northerly breeding grounds. But when a reader asked me how volcanic ash affects birds, I had no ready answer. The best I can do is to say that the ash is affecting birds, but I cannot say precisely how -- so I decided to investigate this issue in more depth and share the studies I found.April is the peak month of spring migration for millions of birds, so the ongoing... more
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Watch two harlequin ducks come alive on paper in this time-lapse video featuring National Geographic bird expert and illustrator Jonathan Alderfer.Watch two harlequin ducks come alive on paper in this time-lapse video featuring... more
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