﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>All</title><link>http://allaboutbirds.org/Rss.aspx?feed=0</link><atom:link href="http://allaboutbirds.org/Rss.aspx?feed=0" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>All articles on allaboutbirds.org</description><copyright>Copyright 2013. All rights reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[How Did the Chicken Cross the Sea?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chickens reach the New World by canoe]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1030</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1030</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following the Birds that Follow the Ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[DNA analysis sheds light on evolution of this unique behavior]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1031</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1031</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[View from Sapsucker Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letter from the Director of the Lab]]></description><dc:creator>By John Fitzpatrick</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1027</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1027</guid><category>magazine</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borg 77EDII Telescope for Birding Photography]]></title><description><![CDATA[Review of Borg 77EDII Telescope for Birding Photography]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source>Gear Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1207</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1207</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tundra Trek]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the road along Alaska's famed Dalton Highway]]></description><dc:creator>By Gerrit Vyn</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1037</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1037</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsafe Haven?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of the most vital bird habitat on Alaska's North Slope is threatened]]></description><dc:creator>By Lisa W. Drew</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1038</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1038</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope Quest 2008]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scanning the horizon for the world's best birding optics]]></description><dc:creator>By Ken Rosenberg</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1039</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1039</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Border Traffic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The challenge of saving Mexico's vanishing Thick-billed Parrots]]></description><dc:creator>By David S. Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1040</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1040</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galapagos of the North]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographing seabirds in the spectacular Pribilofs]]></description><dc:creator>By Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Picture Perfect</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1041</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1041</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merlin Encounter]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a hawk watch, conversation is just what happens between hawks]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>The Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1042</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1042</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Northern Harrier takes aim at some songbirds]]></description><dc:creator>Text and illustrations by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1036</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1036</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watercolors from Eden]]></title><description><![CDATA[Julie Zickefoose's artwork]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1008</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1008</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Times and Counting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The continuing appeal of southeastern Arizona]]></description><dc:creator>By Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1022</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1022</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamaica Bay, New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birding at Jamaica Bay, New York]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Great Birding Escapes</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1016</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1016</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Sing the Wrong Song?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The puzzle of bilingual chickadees]]></description><dc:creator>By Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1023</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1023</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Red-tailed Hawk hideout]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1017</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1017</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Hummingbirds in Surprising Places]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fossil hummingbird from Europe?]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1009</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1009</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hummingbird-Inspired Flying Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toward a hovering robot]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1010</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1010</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mysterious Squeak of the Anna's Hummingbird]]></title><description><![CDATA[How'd he make that sound?]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1011</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1011</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Destroy Your Binoculars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six avenues to really, really needing a new pair]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>The Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1024</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1024</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: A Summer of Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book Review: A Summer of Birds. Book by Danny Heitman (Louisiana State University Press: 2008)]]></description><dc:creator>By Steven J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1012</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1012</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: Good Birders Don't Wear White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book edited by Lisa White (Houghton Mifflin: 2007)]]></description><dc:creator>By Steven J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1013</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1013</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book by Chris Santella (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang: 2007)]]></description><dc:creator>By Steven J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1014</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1014</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding the Northern Route]]></title><description><![CDATA[Searching for rarities in the highlands of Peru]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1018</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1018</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit of the North]]></title><description><![CDATA[An intimate portrait of the Common Loon]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1019</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1019</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of Oystercatchers and Kayakers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Measuring the impact of humans in Kenai Fjords National Park]]></description><dc:creator>By Charles Eldermire</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1020</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1020</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeiss Digital Camera Adaptor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Review of Zeiss Digital Camera Adaptor]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Gear Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1015</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1015</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanishing Vultures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A veterinary drug throws Asian vultures into a crisis]]></description><dc:creator>By Yula Kapetanakos</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1007</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1007</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sapsucker Cairn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andy Goldsworthy builds a cairn in Sapsucker Woods]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=990</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=990</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presque Isle, Pennsylvania]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birding at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Great Birding Escapes</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=996</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=996</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Memories of scrub-jays]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=997</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=997</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bird Photographer's Playground]]></title><description><![CDATA[The view from Bosque del Apache]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source>Picture Perfect</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1003</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1003</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dietary Surprises of Western Sandpipers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Western Sandpipers feast on an unsuspected food]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=991</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=991</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Salmon Help Songbirds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swimming upstream with a load of nutrients]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=992</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=992</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gannets Addicted to Junk Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are gannets giving up honest fishing?]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=993</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=993</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oil Palm Dilemma]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slipping toward extinction, one potato chip at a time]]></description><dc:creator>By David Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1002</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1002</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Things I Would Have Done Differently]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pete Dunne reminisces]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1004</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1004</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steiner Peregrine XP 8x44 Binoculars]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=995</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=995</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Birding Legend]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roger Tory Peterson turns 100]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=999</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=999</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tree Swallow Farmer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A two-decade fascination with Tree Swallows]]></description><dc:creator>By Elizabeth Quill</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1000</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1000</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding California's Central Coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brian Sullivan guides you through his backyard]]></description><dc:creator>By Brian Sullivan</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1001</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1001</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Prairie Hens of Illinois]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Twain's favorite bird...to eat]]></description><dc:creator>By Andrew Beahrs</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=998</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=998</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falcon Fever]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=994</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=994</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerulean Warbler Conservation Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cerulean Warbler Technical Group receives a Wings Across America grant for its El Grupo Ceruleo project]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1745</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1745</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preserving Wild Parrot Populations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plight of a parrot that talks too well]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=967</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=967</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live from the AOU Meeting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dozen stories from the 2008 scientific sessions]]></description><dc:creator>By Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=969</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=969</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Pop-Up Bird Book?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bird book to give in the 2008 holiday season]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=970</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=970</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight No Chaser]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time to reconsider traveling just to add a checkmark to a list]]></description><dc:creator>By Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=981</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=981</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Great Escapes</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=977</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=977</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Accidental Phenologists]]></title><description><![CDATA[All birders becomes students of the seasons, without even trying]]></description><dc:creator>By Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=982</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=982</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two California Thrashers face off]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source>Naturalist's Notebook</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=978</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=978</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dividing Via Migration]]></title><description><![CDATA[One species, two wintering ranges]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relaxing in the Tropics]]></title><description><![CDATA[The physiology of living near the equator]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=972</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=972</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposable Chums]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=975</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=975</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Backyard Birdsong Guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=976</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=976</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Deal of the Century?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A controversial agreement is the best hope for this California wildnerness]]></description><dc:creator>By Gary Langham</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=962</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=962</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scrubland Survivors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The precarious existence of the Florida Scrub-Jay]]></description><dc:creator>By Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=979</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=979</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering Tom Vezo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrating the life and artistry of one of America's most gifted photographers]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=980</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=980</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Supremely Bad Idea]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=973</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=973</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Return to Warden's Grove]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=974</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=974</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Burn Birders, Don't They?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pete Dunne wonders how safe being a birder really is these days]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=983</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=983</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Peregrine Falcon goes bat-hunting]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source>Naturalist's Notebook</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1107</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1107</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Birder Placement Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge of birding and culture]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1106</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1106</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Okavango Safari]]></title><description><![CDATA[For sheer beauty and wildlife, Botswana's Okavango Delta has no peer]]></description><dc:creator>By Gary Kramer</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1083</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1083</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Catesby's "Little Sparrow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can you identify this mystery bird from America's colonial era?]]></description><dc:creator>By James L. Reveal</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1193</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1193</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Orbell's Unlikely Quest]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a New Zealand physician's boyhood dream led to the rediscovery of a lost species]]></description><dc:creator>By Eric Karlan</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1194</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1194</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snowbird Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the cold blast of winter descends on the Northeast, some welcome visitors start arriving]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1110</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1110</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frequent Flyers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keeping common birds common is an investment in our quality of life]]></description><dc:creator>By David Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1206</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1206</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds in the 'Burbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The paradox of the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve]]></description><dc:creator>By Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source>Picture Perfect</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1197</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1197</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldsmith-Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Great Escapes</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1212</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1212</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Presence of Absence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The six-foot tall bronze sculptures of Todd McGrain's Lost Bird Project]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1213</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1213</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Online Art Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Online Gallery of Bird and Wildlife Art]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1214</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1214</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[West Nile Virus Fells Magpies]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fast-spreading disease has cut populations of California's native magpie nearly in half]]></description><dc:creator>By Danielle Bartolo</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1195</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1195</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Snake That Ate Guam]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, brown tree snakes have eaten their way through Guam's native birds. Plants are next]]></description><dc:creator>By Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1196</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1196</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan... and the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>By Stephen J. 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Find out how you can get even more enjoyment out of your favorite activity]]></description><dc:creator>By Caren Cooper</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1221</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1221</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Tips for Birding on a Budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten ways to keep advancing your birding without breaking the bank]]></description><dc:creator>By Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>Top Ten</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1224</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1224</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen Science 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/><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1218</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1218</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[White-winged Crossbills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Invasion of the cone snatchers]]></description><dc:creator>By Clara McCarthy</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1230</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1230</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[May 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Photos by Donna Tolbert-Anderson</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1279</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1279</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding Festivals for Everyone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rewarding experiences for birders of all levels]]></description><dc:creator>By Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1223</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1223</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>BirdScope</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown Creeper]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brief encounter with a hard-to-find nest]]></description><dc:creator>By Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1231</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1231</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme Birding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tips from Team Sapsucker]]></description><dc:creator>By Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1227</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1227</guid><category>birding</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Keys to Bird ID]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bird identification can be tricky when you're starting out]]></description><dc:creator>By Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1232</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1232</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>art</category><category>building_skills</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[June 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Photos by Andy Nguyen</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1316</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1316</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[July 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Photos by Larry Hitchens</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1329</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1329</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden Eagles and Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflections on a most remarkable raptor]]></description><dc:creator>By Grainger Hunt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1308</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1308</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Allure of the Ivory Gull]]></title><description><![CDATA[How will global climate change affect this rare snow-white beauty of the far north?]]></description><dc:creator>By Gerrit Vyn</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1309</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1309</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding in the Bahamas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exploring Great Abaco Island]]></description><dc:creator>By Brian Sullivan</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1310</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1310</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starting Over]]></title><description><![CDATA[A crosstown move brings an end to 12 years of backyard birding]]></description><dc:creator>By Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1307</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1307</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Enigma, Wrapped in a Riddle, Inside a Pine Cone?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What are Red Crossbills anyway?]]></description><dc:creator>By Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1311</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1311</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free as a Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[Act now for this exclusive offer! Supplies are unlimited!]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1314</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1314</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA["Claim-jumping" sapsuckers scuffle in a California campground]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1315</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1315</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter Wren Wraparound]]></title><description><![CDATA[A species stretches around the world, and doesn't recognize itself at the other end]]></description><dc:creator>By Irby Lovette</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1306</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1306</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans, Nature, and Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1312</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1312</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egg and Nest]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1313</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1313</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[August 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Photos by Tony Markle</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1360</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1360</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fencing the Border and Its Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there room for science in the border fence debate?]]></description><dc:creator>Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1345</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1345</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[September 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Photos by My Hanh Dang</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1410</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1410</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Channel Islands Odyssey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Birding by kayak in California's spectacular Channel Islands National Park]]></description><dc:creator>by Chuck Graham</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1434</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1434</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darwin's Other Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The humble pigeon, in all its splendid variety, may have influenced Darwin's thinking more than his finches did]]></description><dc:creator>by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1435</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1435</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Canyon of Their Own]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fate of Mexico's Tufted Jay may depend on the success of ecotourism]]></description><dc:creator>by George Oxford Miller</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1421</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1421</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters of the Wind and Sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Large-scale fishing has endangered the world's albatrosses, but small changes to equipment could stem the losses]]></description><dc:creator>By David Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1437</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1437</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Acoustic Anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recording a dawn chorus in Ithaca, 80 years ago]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1288</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1288</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radnor Lake State Natural Area, Nashville, Tennessee]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just 20 minutes south of Nashville lies the birding crown jewel of Music City, USA]]></description><dc:creator>By Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Great Escapes</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1448</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1448</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nikon EDG 10x42 Binoculars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nikon cracks the top echelon of birding optics]]></description><dc:creator>By Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1447</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1447</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1445</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1445</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Book Reviews</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1446</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1446</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding Gets Catty]]></title><description><![CDATA[For these veterans, a good morning of migration birding is the cat's meow]]></description><dc:creator>By Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1439</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1439</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the morning sun, a pond boils over with swallows]]></description><dc:creator>By John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1440</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1440</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[View from Sapsucker Woods ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aerial photos show the reforestation of rural New York, including the Cornell Lab's home turf]]></description><dc:creator>by John Fitzpatrick</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1442</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1442</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Sapsuckers and Redheads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cornell Lab teams fared well at the 2009 World Series of Birding]]></description><dc:creator>By Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1441</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1441</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[October Featured Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vibrant portraits of remarkable birds, by middle-school students at Tualatin Valley Junior Academy, Oregon]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1455</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1455</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[November 2009 Featured Photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matt Shellenberg trains his lens on warblers and 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2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1487</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1487</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Ways to Conserve Energy While Birding]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1529</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1529</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reducing the Lab's Footprint]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Elise Ferree and Suzanne Kates</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1530</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1530</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding by Bicycle]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Tony Croasdale</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1523</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1523</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovative Air Conditioning]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1542</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1542</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Matters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conserving energy, conserving wildlife]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1537</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1537</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Costs of Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lab's Elephant Listening Project searches for sound solutions]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1515</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1515</guid><category>science</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acoustic Smog and Whales]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're working with partners to reduce the din beneath the waves]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1517</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1517</guid><category>science</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Answer Is Blowing in the Wind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workshop sets research agenda for wind power and migratory birds]]></description><dc:creator>by Andrew Farnsworth</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1479</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1479</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind Power Affects Non-Migratory Birds, Too]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not all birds fly past wind turbines; some live underneath them]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1480</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1480</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerulean Warbler]]></title><description><![CDATA[Partnerships working to reverse declines]]></description><dc:creator>by Sasha Paris and Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1518</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1518</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Green are Green Buildings?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windows need to be more than energy efficient]]></description><dc:creator>by Daniel Klem, Jr</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1532</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1532</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding Festivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saving gas while enjoying new birds]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>BirdScope Autumn 2009</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1521</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1521</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike a Pose]]></title><description><![CDATA[January featured photographer Steve Byland has a knack for finding birds in odd places]]></description><dc:creator>Steve Byland</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1551</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1551</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers sound off on our article about Ivory Gulls and climate 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Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1504</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1504</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind Power and Wildlife]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broad-based efforts are under way to make wind power safe]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1496</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1496</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged Pirates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ahoy, ye scurvy flockmates!]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1498</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1498</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leica Televid APO 82 mm Scope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leica makes a scope for the top shelf]]></description><dc:creator>by Ken Rosenberg</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1501</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1501</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lars Jonsson's Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1502</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1502</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prairie Spring: A Journey Into the Heart of a Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1503</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1503</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get the Lead Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lead bullet fragments can poison wildlife—and people]]></description><dc:creator>by Matthew Miller</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1508</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1508</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saying It With Flowers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The color-coordinated courtship of Australia's Golden Bowerbird]]></description><dc:creator>by Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1509</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1509</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flight of the Kuaka]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the air for eight days and seven thousand miles]]></description><dc:creator>by Don Stap</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1510</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1510</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecology Beyond Cub Scouts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigating berries and birds]]></description><dc:creator>by Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1499</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1499</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Which birds would take you halfway around the world?]]></description><dc:creator>by Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1505</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1505</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Couch Birding]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid you have a psychological affliction known as birding. 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Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1896</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1896</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stretching the Canvas]]></title><description><![CDATA[A trek across the Peruvian wilderness turns up something spectacular]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1788</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1788</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kayak Birding at Kodiak Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[This remote Alaskan isle offers a fabulous array of birds and stunning scenery for adventurous birders]]></description><dc:creator>by Thomas A. 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Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1899</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1899</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding in the Garden of Good and Not So Good]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honest, sometimes thoughtless, we are a group of discourteous saints]]></description><dc:creator>by Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1900</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1900</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[See It, Sketch It, Learn It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featured artist Maria Coryell-Martin goes birding one brushstroke at 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Ospreys]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peering over the shoulders of migrating Ospreys]]></description><dc:creator>by Alan Poole</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1877</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1877</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overhearing a Migration Secret]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flight calls offer clues to a Swainson's Thrush migration route]]></description><dc:creator>by Mike Powers</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1886</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1886</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Editor]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source 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GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1912</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Second Look at "Seagulls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few tips to help you identify some common gulls]]></description><dc:creator>by Jessie Barry</dc:creator><dc:source>By the Sea</dc:source><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1918</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1918</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myriad Seabirds Help Track Mercury Pollution]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Gulf of Maine, each seabird species holds a different clue to the story]]></description><dc:creator>by Sophie Brown</dc:creator><dc:source>By the Sea</dc:source><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1921</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1921</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding the Drake Passage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Albatrosses and petrels make light work of the world's most ferocious waters]]></description><dc:creator>by Brian Sullivan</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1907</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1907</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Toughest Penguin Alive?]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Carly Hodes</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1917</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 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Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[The oil gusher is a 21st-century disaster, but it symbolizes our 19th-century ethics in balancing energy and the environment]]></description><dc:creator>by John Fitzpatrick</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1932</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1932</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Bushtit struggles with a very demanding chick]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1934</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1934</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harlequin Ducks and Oil Spills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today's ducks are still being 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Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1936</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/page.aspx?pid=1936</guid><category>birds</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Private Lives of Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Stephen J. 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Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1943</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1943</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teens Convene]]></title><description><![CDATA[Annual event connects, inspires accomplished young birders]]></description><dc:creator>by Jessie Barry</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=1949</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1949</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Counting Crows]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=1956</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1956</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Man in Mauritius]]></title><description><![CDATA[A volunteer records rare birds for the Macaulay Library]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>on our blog</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=1965</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1965</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared Birds, Shared Goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conserving biodiversity in Cuba through capacity building]]></description><dc:creator>Eduardo Iñigo-Elias</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight: Sharing Science in Cuba</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=1966</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1966</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen Science Flourishes in Cuba]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Karen Purcell</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight: Sharing Science in Cuba</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=1978</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1978</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cross-Country Collaborators]]></title><description><![CDATA[BirdSleuth teachers bring peer review to the eighth grade]]></description><dc:creator>by Lisa DeRado</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Classroom</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=1979</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1979</guid><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science 101: Now With Real 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miles, but never quite come into focus]]></description><dc:creator>by Charles Eldermire</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=1995</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=1995</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Ways Birds Connect People]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking for a way to get outside and make a connection? 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Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2026</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2026</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birdology]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2027</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2027</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after the largest oil spill in history, the leak has been plugged.  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I'm going mine.]]></description><dc:creator>by Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2032</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2032</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking Wing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featured Photographer Binu John is fascinated by flight]]></description><dc:creator>Binu John</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2037</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2037</guid><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finches of North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[A survey in red, yellow, brown, black, and pink.]]></description><dc:creator>Jacob Spendelow</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2055</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2055</guid><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bevy of Bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featured photographer Luke Ormand captures the long and the short of it]]></description><dc:creator>Luke Ormand</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2086</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2086</guid><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best of Birdshare: Birds in the Snow]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Spring greens the world, take a last look at winter with this gallery from our Flickr group

]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2148</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2148</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Editor]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2133</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2133</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[On to Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2136</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2136</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The View from Sapsucker Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by John Fitzpatrick</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2134</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2134</guid><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case of the Bizarre Beaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mysterious ailment in Alaska has been causing birds to grow grossly deformed beaks]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2137</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2137</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wastelands Worth Protecting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Logged forests are far more valuable to wildlife than oil-palm plantations]]></description><dc:creator>by David S. Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2138</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2138</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strategies for photographing birds in action]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strategies for photographing birds in action]]></description><dc:creator>by Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2139</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2139</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Preserving the spectacular natural splendor of the world's largest temperate rainforest]]></description><dc:creator>by Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2140</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2140</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meriwether Lewis Would Be Proud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Helping Lewis's namesake woodpecker in the pine forests of Oregon]]></description><dc:creator>by Stephen A. Shrunk</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2141</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2141</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shawnee State Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ohio's Little Smokies]]></description><dc:creator>by Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Escapes</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2142</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2142</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen A. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2143</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2143</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen A. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2144</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2144</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Anna's Hummingbird Attacks a Loggerhead Shrike]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2145</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2145</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Say "Bird Walk," You Say "Big Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do gender patterns mean for the future of bird watching?]]></description><dc:creator>by Caren Cooper</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2090</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2090</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen-science participants provide crucial long-term data on changing climate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citizen-science participants provide crucial long-term data on changing climate]]></description><dc:creator>by Jennifer Shirk</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2154</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2154</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Editor]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2093</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2093</guid><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Briefs]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2117</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2117</guid><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping Secrets of Swallows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Close relatives of the Tree Swallow battle the elements at the tip of South America]]></description><dc:creator>by Daisy Yuhas</dc:creator><dc:source>On Our Blog</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2103</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2103</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blogging From a Treehouse in Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>On Our 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GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2128</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sandy Beaches, Oily Feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2150</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2150</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head and Shoulders Above]]></title><description><![CDATA[A celebration of Sandhill Cranes]]></description><dc:creator>Donna Ikenberry</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2177</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2177</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Eye for Detail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featured photographer Gerry Dewaghe is one of many contributers to our species guide.  You can be too.]]></description><dc:creator>Gerry Dewaghe</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2200</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2200</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop Right There!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featured photographer Matt Hansen packs his still images with motion]]></description><dc:creator>Matt Hansen</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2231</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2231</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosetta Stone for Warblers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Identifying an entire family of warblers in the dark, from their chip notes]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>Downloadable Artwork</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2229</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2229</guid><category>art</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rats! 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Powers</dc:creator><dc:source>Under Cloak of Darkness</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2217</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2217</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birding by Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Jessie Barry</dc:creator><dc:source>Under Cloak of Darkness</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2218</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2218</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Backyard Bird Count Tallies Birds Rare and Common]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2219</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2219</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Technologies for Studying Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our methods for learning about birds have improved by leaps and bounds since Galileo's first telescope]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>Top Ten List</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2223</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2223</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tracking a Mystery Osprey]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2221</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2221</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology That's for the Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developing a research device to watch, listen, and identify migrants automatically]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2222</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2222</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Yellow-rumped Warbler, White-breasted Nuthatch, and Red-naped Sapsucker enjoy sap wells]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2241</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2241</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deepater Horizon: One Year Later]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2242</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2242</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Expectorations]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2243</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2243</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanguard Endeavor ED 10.5 x 45 Binoculars]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Ken Rosenberg</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2244</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2244</guid><category>birds</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Stephen Lyn Bales (University of Tennessee Press)]]></description><dc:creator>Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2245</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2245</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2246</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2246</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent Alert]]></title><description><![CDATA[An appreciation of the Cooper's Hawk]]></description><dc:creator>by Grainger Hunt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2248</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2248</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[There Goes the Neighborhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding territoriality in bird communities]]></description><dc:creator>by Neil Losin</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2249</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2249</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guerrilla uprising put a halt to tourism in Colombia for more than a decade. 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Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2251</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2251</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots to Like]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes liking birds leads to a small measure of unlikable frustration]]></description><dc:creator>by Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>The Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2252</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2252</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast Forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring finery, new nestlings, old fields, and first snowflakes: a year through the lens of Raghuram Ramanujan]]></description><dc:creator>by Raghuram Ramanujan</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2253</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2253</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sunny Side of Life ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does sunlight affect chicks still in the egg?]]></description><dc:creator>by Margaret Voss and Caren Cooper</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2270</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2270</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA["Chickadees" of the Outback]]></title><description><![CDATA[In northern Queensland, two subspecies reunite]]></description><dc:creator>by Dan Baldassarre</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2272</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2272</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ripple Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Home study course participants share passion for Yucatan]]></description><dc:creator>by Nancy Trautmann</dc:creator><dc:source>Making a Difference</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2263</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2263</guid><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Free Field Guides]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish edition of field guide arrives in Cuba for giveaway]]></description><dc:creator>by Laura Erickson</dc:creator><dc:source>Making a Difference</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2264</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2264</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Land Is Their Land]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new report tabulates the value of public lands for birds]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Downloadable 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GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2276</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBird Users Supply Information for Landmark Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[For one Cornell Lab scientist, State of the Birds highlights a lifetime of progress]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2269</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2269</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helmeted Woodpecker]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2267</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2267</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Winning Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2288</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2288</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thieves With Benefits]]></title><description><![CDATA[When is a thief handy to have around? When it's a drongo and you're a babbler]]></description><dc:creator>by Caitlin Stern</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2289</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2289</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can We Save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper]]></title><description><![CDATA[The perils of a long-distance migrant]]></description><dc:creator>by David S. Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2290</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2290</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Vibrations]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a noisier world, some birds fight noise with noise]]></description><dc:creator>by Mary Woodsen</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2292</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2292</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going Nutty for Acorn Woodpeckers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why is that strange woman hiding behind the restrooms with a camera?]]></description><dc:creator>by Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2293</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2293</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Enchanted Isles]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brief sojourn on Ecuador's famed Galapagos Island]]></description><dc:creator>by Gary Kramer</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2294</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2294</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vortex Razor HD 8x42 Binoculars]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Ken Rosenberg</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2298</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2298</guid><category>birding</category><category>gear_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dog Days, Raven Nights]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2299</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2299</guid><category>birds</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird Coloration]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2300</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2300</guid><category>birds</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A  Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cassin's Kingbirds defend their nest—artwork and field notes]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2301</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2301</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida Foray]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer Melissa Groo explores the light, water, and birds of the Sunshine State]]></description><dc:creator>By Melissa Groo</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2319</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2319</guid><category>travel</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pairing and Parenthood on the Tundra]]></title><description><![CDATA[First-ever breeding footage of  one of the world's rarest shorebirds]]></description><dc:creator>by Gerrit Vyn</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2341</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2341</guid><category>birds</category><category>photography</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound Lessons From a Master]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of Ted Parker's tropical song recordings are now online]]></description><dc:creator>by Matthew Medler</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2318</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2318</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiery Foes]]></title><description><![CDATA[An island's gulls face down tiny attackers]]></description><dc:creator>by Luke DeFisher</dc:creator><dc:source>Focus on Students</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2344</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2344</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stretching Their Wings]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Focus on Students</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2345</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2345</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing Their 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curiosity]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Downloadable Artwork</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2329</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2329</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerto for Wood Thrush and Oriole]]></title><description><![CDATA[The composer who brought dawn chorus into the concert hall]]></description><dc:creator>by Sharinne Sukhnanand</dc:creator><dc:source>Musical Interlude</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2348</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2348</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windswept]]></title><description><![CDATA[eBird users find rare visitors in storm's path]]></description><dc:creator>by Marshall Iliff</dc:creator><dc:source>Coast to 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Clock</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2352</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2352</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information Seekers]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do Black Vultures gain from roosting?]]></description><dc:creator>by Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2367</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2367</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prelude to an Epic Migration]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2373</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2373</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a Parrot Learns Its "Name"]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2374</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2374</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voiceprints from the Sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2375</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2375</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the Empty Nest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fledgling Ovenbirds lead scientists to new places]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2376</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2376</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Return to Durango]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than half a century after an amateur ornithologist from Pennsylvania shot the only film footage ever taken of a living Imperial Woodpecker, a Cornell team revisits the site in the mountains of northwestern Mexico]]></description><dc:creator>by Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2314</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2314</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not At Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steve Kress and the puffins of Eastern Egg Rock]]></description><dc:creator>by Peter Cashwell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2364</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2364</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always Leave 'Em Laughing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trying to get (and hold) the attention of beginning birders]]></description><dc:creator>by Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2368</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2368</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catalina State Park, Tucson, Arizona]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Bobby R. Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Escapes</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2377</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2377</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence Came Bird Walks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>The Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2369</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2369</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2378</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2378</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hawks at a Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>Page.aspx?pid=2380</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2380</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A  Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>Page.aspx?pid=2370</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>Page.aspx?pid=2370</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Pair of Peregrines]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two falcons and their cliff nest at the beach]]></description><dc:creator>Steve Wolfe</dc:creator><dc:source>Featured Photographer</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2407</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2407</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBirders Enable Next Generation of Range Maps]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2401</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2401</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tough Nut to Crack]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the West's whitebark pines under attack, what will become of nutcrackers?]]></description><dc:creator>by Taza Schaming</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2391</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2391</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bright Future in a City of Incas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meeting showcases the growing ranks of Latin American ornithologists]]></description><dc:creator>by Eduardo Inigo-Elias</dc:creator><dc:source>Update: Latin America</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2394</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2394</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seabird Restoration Underway in Baja California]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Update: Latin America</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2395</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2395</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexican Student Group Tops State eBird List]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Eric Gulson</dc:creator><dc:source>Update: Latin America</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2396</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2396</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illustration at the Cornell Lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bartels Science Illustration Internship program takes flight]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>Downloadable Artwork</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2397</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2397</guid><category>art</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Origins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did a cry for help turn into a song and dance routine?]]></description><dc:creator>by Emma Greig</dc:creator><dc:source>Sound Science</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2384</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2384</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, Listen, Learn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museum exhibits make sounds visible]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Aural Pursuits</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2398</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2398</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pilots of the Caribbean]]></title><description><![CDATA[First photos of chick renew hope for endangered  Caribbean seabird]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2400</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2400</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing in a Noisy World]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2410</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2410</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put a Cork in it]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2412</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2412</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a Century and Counting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Living Bird]]></description><dc:creator>by Tim Gallagher</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2413</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2413</guid><category>birding</category><category>history</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terra Incognita]]></title><description><![CDATA[Into the depths of New Guinea's Foja Mountains]]></description><dc:creator>by Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2414</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2414</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Must Believe in Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why for 35 years people have migrated to a classroom in Ithaca, New York]]></description><dc:creator>by Peter Cashwell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2404</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2404</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laboratories of Extinction]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 93 percent of the bird species that have perished since 1500 have been island endemics]]></description><dc:creator>by David S. Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2415</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2415</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2416</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2416</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Rare Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2417</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2417</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator /><dc:source>by John Schmitt</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2418</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2418</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Backyard Bird Count Shatters Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2459</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2459</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind Birders Count by Ear]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2460</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2460</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Artist Among Falconers]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Sarah MacLean</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2461</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2461</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research Endowment Honors Friendship, Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[From one Cornell '10 grad to another, a birthday gift pays it forward]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source>Looking to the Future</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2462</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2462</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to Whales in the Roaring Forties]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pat Leonard</dc:creator><dc:source>Looking to the Future</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2463</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2463</guid><category>BirdScope</category><category>science</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Elephants You Can't See]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Looking to the Future</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2464</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2464</guid><category>BirdScope</category><category>science</category><category>photography</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put Yourself on the Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[You're the local expert for YardMap, our new citizen-science project]]></description><dc:creator>&amp;nbsp;</dc:creator><dc:source>Downloadable Artwork</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2465</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2465</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>art</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Team Sapsucker's Big Day Plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[...to break their own record in Texas]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source>Excursions</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2444</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2444</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and Science in the Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Excursions</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2466</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2466</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sizing up the vocal virtuoso in your backyard]]></description><dc:creator>by Becky Cramer</dc:creator><dc:source>Sound Science</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2439</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2439</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far-Out Finch]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Brief Encounters</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2468</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2468</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes to the Skies]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new generation of webcams offers gorgeous views of nesting birds]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2467</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2467</guid><category>birding</category><category>BirdScope</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Memoriam: Robert Ford Schumann]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Scott Sutcliffe</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2475</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2475</guid><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dinner Guests]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave  Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2477</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2477</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Travel Taught Me About Birding -- And Vice Versa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Serendipitous encounters of the best kind]]></description><dc:creator>by Mel White</dc:creator><dc:source>Flying Field</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2478</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2478</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seabirds off the Beaten Path]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the penguins and albatrosses on the faraway isles of Aotearoa]]></description><dc:creator>by Cliff Beittel</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2479</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2479</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last Chance for the World's Rarest Eagle]]></title><description><![CDATA[A captive-breeding program offers new hope for the Philippine Eagle]]></description><dc:creator>by George Oxford Miller</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2480</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2480</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to Do But Soar?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The curious expansion of the Mississippi Kite]]></description><dc:creator>by Jack Connor</dc:creator><dc:source>In the Field</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2481</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2481</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence Came Caps?]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Pete Dunne</dc:creator><dc:source>The Catbird Seat</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2483</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2483</guid><category>birding</category><category>history</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlas of Rare Birds, by Dominic Couzens]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2484</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2484</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, by Julie Zickefoose]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2485</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2485</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audubon National Wildlife Refuge North Dakota]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Bobby Harrison</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Escapes</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2482</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2482</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2486</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2486</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Missing? 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Wilcove</dc:creator><dc:source>Spotlight</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2519</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2519</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing With His Wings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The complex "song" of the club-winged Manakin]]></description><dc:creator>by Kimberly Bostwick</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2520</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2520</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Site Fidelity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The avian treasures of Merritt Island, Florida]]></description><dc:creator>by Don Stap</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2521</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2521</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the Waters of Kariba]]></title><description><![CDATA[A manmade lake in the heart of southern Africa]]></description><dc:creator>Text and photographs by Chuck Graham</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2522</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2522</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meopta MeoStar S2 82 HD Spotting Scope and MeoPix iScoping Adapter]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Kenneth V. Rosenberg</dc:creator><dc:source>Birding Products</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2523</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2523</guid><category>reviews</category><category>gear_reviews</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Field, Among the Feathered, by Thomas R. Dunlap]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2525</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2525</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America, by Steve Howell]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>/page.aspx?pid=2526</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2526</guid><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>/page.aspx?pid=2527</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>/page.aspx?pid=2527</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>birds</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Conservation Science Leader: Q&A with Amanda Rodewald]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2583</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2583</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category><category>people</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superflight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Find out what's behind this winter's major flight of finches and nuthatches]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>Around the Lab</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2579</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2579</guid><category>birding</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Crow-shaped Hole in Hawaii]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Hugh Powell</dc:creator><dc:source>ScienceScope</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2585</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2585</guid><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the Alders]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Text and photo by Marie Read</dc:creator><dc:source>Focus</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2587</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2587</guid><category>birding</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last of Their Kind]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the Russian tundra, critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers gather to nest and raise their young in numbers so vulnerably low, each new breeding season could be the species' last.]]></description><dc:creator>Text and photos by Gerrit Vyn</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2577</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2577</guid><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category><category>conservation</category><category>newsLab</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Darwinian Dance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Falcons and starlings engage in an age-old aerial ballet, rising and diving in spectacular synchrony across the open sky]]></description><dc:creator>by Grainger Hunt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2588</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2588</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category><category>science</category><category>birds</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Plains of Hungary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The vast grassy puszta holds some of Europe's best bird habitat, unspoiled by communism but now threatened by economic crisis]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2589</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2589</guid><category>birding</category><category>travel</category><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, by John Marzluff and Tony Angell]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2591</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2591</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation, James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>Reviewed by Stephen J. Bodio</dc:creator><dc:source>Books for Birders</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2592</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2592</guid><category>birds</category><category>reviews</category><category>book_reviews</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Naturalist's Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by John Schmitt</dc:creator><dc:source /><link>page.aspx?pid=2593</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2593</guid><category>birding</category><category>art</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird-Friendly Coffee Supports Critical Winter Habitat]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator>by Gustave Axelson</dc:creator><dc:source>Conservation and You</dc:source><link>page.aspx?pid=2595</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>page.aspx?pid=2595</guid><category>birds</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID Tips for Tricky Finches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever been stumped by a streaky brown finch at your feeder? 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