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Great Adirondack Birding Celebration – THIS weekend!

June 1, 2009

  REMINDER: The Seventh Annual Great Adirondack Birding Celebration will be held June 5-7 at the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center in Paul Smiths. The weekend features birding trips, lectures, workshop and the popular Teddy Roosevelt Birding Challenge. The keynote address will be given by Bridget Stutchbury, York University professor of biology. For more information, visit http://www.adkvic.org/birdcelebration.html or call [...]

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June is Birding Month in The Adirondacks

May 11, 2009

The Adirondack Park is a haven for boreal birds that migrate to the region every spring. Migrants arrive in full force by late May, and by June, roughly 176 different bird species will be on breeding territory, including 76 neotropical migrants (such as Cape May and Bay-breasted warblers). In a mere two weeks, I will be making a solo [...]

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Chasing a Black-headed Needle In a Haystack (part 3)

April 18, 2009

This story continues from (part 1), (part 2) *** We stood on the banks of the Niagara River staring at a ginormous flock of seagulls.   Thankfully, Brad is a patient and knowledgeable birder. Cross that with an obsessive desire to finally nail his NY nemesis, he needed all the eyes he could train on this flock. He [...]

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Festival of the Birds at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania

March 31, 2009

Now here’s a festival I wish I could attend. On three days surrounding International Migratory Bird Day (May 9), the Festival of the Birds will take place on a small peninsula in eastern Lake Erie called Presque Isle. “Presque” is a French term meaning “almost an island.” The Isle, known as a recurving sand spit [...]

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First Inaugural Birding Festival at Roger Tory Peterson Institute

March 29, 2009

To celebrate the life and legacy of Roger Tory Peterson, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will launch its inaugural annual birding festival June 4-7, 2009. The focus of the festival will be eastern North American warblers on the Allegheny Plateau. Twenty-five warblers are known to breed in the area and the festival will offer several [...]

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