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Keeping a Bird Checklist for Your Yard

Keeping a Bird Checklist for Your Yard

One of the best ways to nurture a budding interest in birdwatching is to keep a bird checklist. A checklist is simply a list of birds recorded in your area and “keeping a checklist” is using that checklist to keep track of all the birds you have seen.

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Quick Facts about Bird Nests

Quick Facts about Bird Nests

Birds are an incredibly diverse animal group. This is reflected in many aspects of their reproductive ecology, as you can see in this short list of facts about the nests of birds.

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A Basic Birdwatching Equipment List

A Basic Birdwatching Equipment List

One of the great attractions of birdwatching is its simplicity. There are no set rules for birdwatching, no minimum requirements to meet and no real expectations other than spending some enjoyable time with the birds and your friends.

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Why birds sing in the morning

Why birds sing in the morning

Bird singing varies throughout the day and generally follows a circadian (daily) rhythm, usually along what’s known as a bimodal pattern, i.e. two main periods of singing activity. In the case of most birds, there is much singing during the early morning and a lower level of singing in the evening.

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