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Lishui's bird record expanded to 450 species
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Lishui's bird record expanded to 450 species

China Daily  

Two new bird species, the Kamchatka Leaf Warbler and Alstrom's Warbler, were spotted in Yunhe and Jinyun in Lishui, Zhejiang province, bringing the total number of recorded species in Lishui to 450. Zhu Weiwen, a local wild bird photographer, was the first to discover the Kamchatka Leaf Warbler in Yunhe on May 16. The bird was observed hopping around camphor …

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The American swamp bird that disappeared
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The American swamp bird that disappeared

BBC  

The American swamp bird that disappeared Getty Images Bachman’s warbler is one of 21 species declared extinct last year – but scientists are still discovering its secrets. "March 1890" reads the date on the paper tag tied around its foot – marking it out as one of seven Bachman's warbler specimens in the ornithology collection at Cornell University, New York. …

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The American Ornithological Society is renaming birds named after people. Now comes the hard part.
10 months, 4 weeks ago

The American Ornithological Society is renaming birds named after people. Now comes the hard part.

Slate  

Last November, the American Ornithological Society, or AOS, announced that it would change the common names of all American birds named after people. In the coming years, birds like Cooper’s Hawk, Wilson’s Snipe, and Lincoln’s Sparrow will be stripped of their eponyms and given new common English names. “Prominent feature” names seem to be the most popular because they help …

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This dirt parking lot in the San Gabriel Mountains is a magnet for migrating birds
1 year, 8 months ago

This dirt parking lot in the San Gabriel Mountains is a magnet for migrating birds

LA Times  

The San Gabriel Mountains loom like an impregnable fortress for millions of migrating birds making their long and perilous journey to distant breeding grounds in the far north. “For birds flying north over the Los Angeles Basin and encountering the San Gabriel Mountains, Bear Divide is like a gate in the castle wall,” said Ryan Terrill, a biologist at Cal …

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Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen’s 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.’s Audubon Center
3 years, 2 months ago

Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen’s 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.’s Audubon Center

LA Times  

Like most arts groups, Piano Spheres got through a performance-free pandemic the best it could on Zoom. The occasion was a rare complete performance of Messiaen’s obsessive “Catalogue d’Oiseaux,” 13 arresting virtuosic solo pieces suffused with the calls of dozens of birds that the composer heard while birding in the French countryside during the mid-1950s. Although single-minded birder pianists with …

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UP Architect Spots Rare Greenish Warbler Bird in Gorakhpur
4 years, 1 month ago

UP Architect Spots Rare Greenish Warbler Bird in Gorakhpur

News 18  

In a rare find, an architect has spotted a Greenish Warbler in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Greenish Warbler is a migratory bird that flies in from Europe to North India every year in August. “The small bird that looks like a sparrow, is difficult to be spotted but easily heard,” said the architect, also a member of the Heritage Foundation. …

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Birdwatchers flock to Texel to spot warbler on first visit to NL
4 years, 1 month ago

Birdwatchers flock to Texel to spot warbler on first visit to NL

Dutch News  

Hundreds of birdwatchers have been flocking to the Wadden Sea island of Texel hoping to catch sight of an unprepossessing small bird – which has never been spotted in the Netherlands before. The Blackpoll warbler has been seen in a graveyard in the far north of the island, having crossed the Atlantic from Canadian and American forests on its way …

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How to catch a glimpse of the Lesser Whitethroat in Delhi
4 years, 2 months ago

How to catch a glimpse of the Lesser Whitethroat in Delhi

The Hindu  

The warblers had begun to arrive! After the birdwatcher’s yearly dry spell through summer, and with the monsoon migrants flying away, we heard a metallic che…che, followed by a dry rattle, in the Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram. The bird is fairly adaptive, adjusting to varied habitats like open country, thorny shrubs and acacias of arid scrubland, and even inhabits …

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The Greenish Warbler is now in Delhi
4 years, 2 months ago

The Greenish Warbler is now in Delhi

The Hindu  

It was August 22, 2020, and with the pandemic travel guidelines slightly lifted, I made a quick dash to Gurugram to catch up with a former intern who was leaving for Oxford University. I hadn’t expected to hear the shrill, loud disyllabic ‘chee-wee’ cry of the Greenish Warbler, in a stray wild patch outside her high-rise apartment. The timid behaviour …

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