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    Anybody seen a Purple Swamphen lately?

    hurricane andrew freed privately owned birds in miami, plus a few that escaped from the miami zoo
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    German Ornithologist dead

    was the area marked with signs? you should always obey the signs......
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    Anybody seen a Purple Swamphen lately?

    there are sightings of purple swamphen as far north as georgia now......they might eventually breed in okeefenokee.........anyways i think that they are a species thats here to stay and its too late to eradicate them altogether......ive yet to find any research documenting them preying on the...
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    roller pigeon "enthusiasts" shooting raptors

    http://thedrinkingbirdblog.com/2010/03/26/the-case-against-pigeon-clubs-or-why-tysons-show-is-not-for-the-birds/ this is a little old, and the case (operation high roller) happened a few years back, but i think its still relevant now. its rather unsavory to be breeding birds with...
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    Harris 'Falcon' helps grape growers in France

    the french falconers had prairie falcons in that same report. i thought it was odd to see those birds in europe..
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    rather sickening that this goes on.....

    they "pick" on eachother on a daily basis. hezbollah, islamic jihad, the christian militas ect have all been guilty.......
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    rather sickening that this goes on.....

    id imagine the people killing birds in the middle east effect the population that returns to europe to breed so this is more than a local or regional problem
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    rather sickening that this goes on.....

    http://www.aramatube.com/shooting-hunting-in-lebanon_6JSmU5+gShNzt.html note all the raptors.......
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    How many Pigeons and Doves have you seen?

    common ground dove mourning dove rock pigeon white crowned pigeon barbary/ringed turtle dove
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    have you ever observed predatory behavior in grackles??

    i just saw a report of a great tailed grackle killing a barn swallow in flight...its on google. in alvaro jaramillo's "the new world blackbirds" there was a report of a common grackle that "killed and ate 39 passerines over a 2 week period" and in the same book, boat tailed grackles where...
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    what 10 birds would you most like to see in your lifetime

    a few more: gray wagtail white wagtail eastern yellow wagtail citrine wagtail forest wagtail japanese wagtail golden pipit hooded wheatear isabelline wheatear hoopoe lark trumpeter finch tibetan raven (corvus corax thibetanus) any of the longclaws sociable lapwing/plover black (verrauxes) eagle...
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    what 10 birds would you most like to see in your lifetime

    mammals: woodland caribou jaguar common palm civet egyptian mongoose assam macaque banded linsang binturong fishing cat jungle cat tarsier
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    what 10 birds would you most like to see in your lifetime

    in no particular order hoopoe great spotted cuckoo melodious blackbird dollarbird asian koel greater coucal nothern wheatear grass owl european beeeater alpine pipit
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    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    what race are the greenland white wagtails? have they been found as vagrants in eastern north america? i know there was a wagtail in florida in 2008....was it an ocularis bird from alaska or was it of another subspecies? on a related note are the populations of the eastern yellow wagtail...
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    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    and florida as well
  16. M

    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    also another europe to greenland example would be meadow pipit,
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    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    on a seperate note i read somewhere that there where already oriental white eyes (zosterops palpebrosus) breeding in san diego/LA in the 80s/90s......im not sure if they still are
  18. M

    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    shiny cowbird would be another example of a carribbean bird moving into florida
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    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    well the whiteeye was never native to hawaii so its not an endemic that has lost its ability to travel and it seems to be highly adaptive as it has colonized just about every available habitat on the islands........also, seeing how the bird is native to japan, a place whose climate/ecosystems...
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    could the japanese whiteeye colonize north america from hawaii?

    they are apparently the most common bird to be encountered in all the major hawaiian islands and have been seen "very far out to sea" east of the islands. would it be a stretch to say that a small flock could traverse the stretch of the pacific between hawaii and the mainland and reach, say...
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    10 most potentially damaging invasive birds in north america...

    japanese whiteeye/oriental whiteeye/silvereye/red vented bulbul/black throated magpie-jay all could go on the list
  22. M

    10 most potentially damaging invasive birds in north america...

    bump
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    10 most potentially damaging invasive birds in north america...

    reports of water monitors are on the upswing........a half dozen in miami/dade area in the past year or so..........they often get to huge purportions....second only to the komodo dragon among lizards in size......and weigh as much as a man...... savannah monitor reports are also on the...
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    10 most potentially damaging invasive birds in north america...

    wooly necked storks sighted free flying in miami...........doubtful that theyd be able to take hold, but you never know...........
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    10 most potentially damaging invasive birds in north america...

    any species with multiple individuals sighted free flying is a possible invader. there is also no indication that either of these glossy starlings couldnt establish viable populations in the given habitat. ...then again the recent cold snap may have done them in............
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