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A DC Birding Blog
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Observations and personal accounts of birding in the Washington, D.C., area, and essays on other matters.
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Birdcam Videos
My Birdcam took these two videos recently. They are both set at a ground-level birdbath. The bath itself is simply a shallow ceramic plate, nothing fancy.First, a mourning dove.Second, a hatch-year robin.If the embedded videos will not play, you can ...
Learning to Recognize Predators
A recent study found that migratory songbirds can learn from local resident birds when they reach unfamiliar territory for the first time. In particular, birds need to learn which predators to avoid.The research team tested whether migratory songbird...
EPA Email / Exxon
In this Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart reports on the ignored email story from last week. If the embedded video does not work, try here. In addition, John Hodgman comments on the oil addiction. Posted on A DC Birding Blog. Readers may quote tex...
Bird Diversity and the West Nile Virus
Last week, PloS ONE published an interesting paper that argues that a diverse bird population lowers the human risk of contracting the West Nile Virus (WNV). The study compared WNV infection rates in sixty-five pairs of neighboring counties, in which...
Everglades Funding
Last week, when Florida announced that it would buy U.S. Sugar properties in South Florida, it seemed to me that some things were being left unsaid in the initial wire reports. I was particularly concerned with the funding for the purchase, and wonde...
