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Wonky winter brings Arctic birds south, sparks early migration

18.05.12

North America's wonky winter forced its different bird populations to flock much farther afield this year as Arctic species moved south and southern watefowl showed up in ice-free Canada much earlier in the year.

Snowy owls from the Arctic and tundra swans, which normally winter in the southern U.S., as far south as Florida, were among the birds reported in unusually high numbers in Canada during this year's annual Great Backyard Bird Count.

Four times as many snowy owls and nearly 17 times more tundra swans were reported by Canadian participants this year than last year, said Bird Studies Canada this week.

The group partners with the U.S.-based Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society of the U.S. to coordinate the annual count, which ran across Canada and the U.S. from Feb. 17 to 20.

Scientists think the snowy owls moved further south than usual this winter due to a shortage of food such as lemmings. They were spotted in much greater number in the central U.S. plains and the Pacific Northwest as well.

Source: CBC.ca

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PEEPS: Revisiting the Shemya Island Gallinule/Moorhen

by Bill Maynard

p On 16 March 2010 the South American Checklist Committee (SACC), an American Ornithologists’ Union committee, split thepOld World and New World Common Moorhen into two speciespbased on information presented in The Sound Approach to Birding: A... Recently, the AOU North American Check-list Committee (NACC) also voted to acceptpthis split, calling the birds breeding in North American, Common Gallinule (again), and the birds breeding in the Old World, Common Moorhen.

Source: PEEPS: Revisiting the Shemya Island Gallinule/Moorhen

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Check-list of North American birds, the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands
829 pages 		Check-list of North American birds, the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands

Creator: American Ornithologists' Union. Committee on Classification and Nomenclature | Nature - 1998-06
Publisher: Amer Ornithologists Union
Check-List of North American Birds, According to the Canons of Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union
146 pages 		Check-List of North American Birds, According to the Canons of Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union

Creator: American Ornithologists' Union | 2010-05
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Publisher: Nabu Press
National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America
503 pages 		National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America

Creator: Jon Dunn, Jonathan K. Alderfer, National Geographic Society (U.S.) | Nature - 2006-11-07
A completely revised and updated fifth edition of the popular birding handbook provides identification tips, full-color artwork, new locator and range maps, information on behavior and nesting, new plumage and species classification data, ...
Publisher: Natl Geographic Society
An Egg Check List of North American Birds, Giving Accurate Descriptions of the Color and Size of the Eggs, and Locations of the Nests of the Land And
84 pages 		An Egg Check List of North American Birds, Giving Accurate Descriptions of the Color and Size of the Eggs, and Locations of the Nests of the Land And

Creator: Oliver Davie | 2011-09
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Publisher: Nabu Press
Birds of eastern and Central North America
427 pages 		Birds of eastern and Central North America

Creator: Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson | Nature - 2002-04-04
For a checklist covering the entire North American region see the ABA Checklist: Birds of the Continental United States and Canada, compiled hi the Checklist Committee of the American Birding Association, PO Box 6599, Colorado Springs, ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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