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    Gull diving training!?

    That's really interesting! Great pics, too. I love watching gulls drop bivalves on the rocks. It seems plausible to me that a gull might use the motions of one foraging strategy to practice another, but this guy's an adult, so you'd think he'd have his dive technique nailed by now...
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    Does anyone have a house finch nest?

    Dear New York bird folks, I'm a long-time birder who recently became a PhD student in biology, and I'm now studying the gorgeous and complex singing behavior of house finches. My hope is to perform a study that tells me something about how, when and from whom they learn their songs in the wild...
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    Trying to ID this bird based on its call

    Hi Pat, Have you tried the red-tailed hawk? It definitely has a rusty gate quality. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/sounds
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    Hello from an urban birdsong researcher in New York!

    Hi folks, I became a birder about seven years ago, to introduce more nature into my urban lifestyle. But birds were so much more interesting than anything else I was doing, that after a whirlwind of major life changes I became a PhD student in evolutionary biology and animal behavior at the...
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