PRESS RELEASE 03 January 2004 Central Kalimantan Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation Plans to Release Orangutans to Wild Six lucky orangutans will soon have...
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK is hoping someone will be able to donate a new centrifuge for the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project in...
That makes sense with what I've seen, thanks! D. My Wildlife Photos http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=dcutrell http://community.webshots.com/user/dcutrell1...
I just got a sad email... Eric Date: Monday - January 5, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: Spectacled Bear Animal Programs and DAH staff decided to euthanize Roger,...
Letter From the Desk of David Challinor January 2004 A popular exhibit at New York's American Museum of Natural History in the 1930's was a vertically mounted...
This was an interesting article detailing how bad farmed salmon is for you. Unfortunately, this study will put the wild population at a severe risk if people...
This morning I saw what I think were barn swallows hanging out in some small oak trees. There were five or six and they were very interested in the mistletoe....
It does look an awful lot like the western bluebird. I'm not too familiar with western birds, but that's what it looks like to me. Holly ... From: Denise...
They appear to be bluebirds, probably western bluebirds. Neat you have acorn woodpeckers, saw my first last year in Pt. Reyes, neat bird. Glenn ... From:...
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http://www.sundayherald.com/39198 Battle is on to save the orang-utan from near extinction Population could be wiped out within 20 years, warns leading...
With the frigid weather here on the East Coast of the U.S. this past weekend, we had an abundance of wildlife at our feeders. The best sight was a goldfinch...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the wildlife-watchers group: Which field guide do you commonly use to identify birds? o Peterson guide ...
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Thanks! I need to go dig up my bird guide. I gave up a few years ago when I could never remember details well enough to be sure of identifying more than a few...
That's one of the nice things about having digital cameras, it definitely makes identification a lot easier! Which bird guide were you using? Holly ... From:...
It's the National Audubon Society Field Guide to N. American Birds--western region. Not a ton of info, but it is good for identification and I can get more...
Keep sending those mystery birds in! It really helps me at least to learn birds if I have other pictures to look at. This one looks like it might be a...
Good to know I'm not annoying you with the mystery birds! I've got a few other that I took last spring and summer if you're interested let me know and I'll...
Send them on over, it's always great to try and figure out what these mystery birds are! Besides, that's what we're here for! I definitely recommend Kaufman's...
This one is a nice Red tailed Hawk. Note the white breast and brown belly band and the darkish head. We use most of the books for IDs, but in the field we use...
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Jan 13, 2004 2:21 am
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Here's the mystery birds. The only one I know (and I could be wrong) is a purple finch the last photo. Thanks for the recommendation--I'll definitely keep it...
Thought I'd rise to the challenge of this, and got out my American bird books. I recognised the bright yellow and black birds as American goldfinches, and the...
Goldfinches go through a winter molt where they tend to look greenish, rather than yellow and black. Could you resend the photos as I lost them, I'd like a...
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Here are my guesses: The bright yellow birds are breeding male American Goldfinches--apparently they aren't that bright the rest of the year? The other birds...
I thought two of the pictures looked like goldfinches, one also looked a bit like a grosbeak, but I'm not sure which one--I've only seen a Rose-breasted ...
I was thinking it might be a female Black Headed Grosbeak, that's what it looked like from my Peterson's Guide. The yellow birds definitely look like ...
The yellow birds and greenish birds on the tube feeder are American Goldfinches. The red one in the last picture is a House Finch. The large Grosbeak is a...
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