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		<title>Celebrity Whimbrel Now a Movie Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Hope’ is becoming increasingly familiar with this blog. Not just because we do our darndest  to be optimistic (and several conservation gains in Canada’s boreal in the past few years have affirmed this right—including recent good news in Quebec). But because one amazing Whimbrel named Hope has provided much joy for this blog over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eagle Owl at 1000 Frames/Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dchilds13</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you combine a hungry Eagle Owl and a high-speed HD camera?
A remarkable glimpse of what the last seconds of life looks like for many voles&#8230;

Note: this isn&#8217;t particularly new, but I thought I would share it in case you haven&#8217;t come across it yet. The last few seconds gave me goosebumps&#8230;
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		<title>Buntings and Redpolls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dchilds13</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two seed-loving birds that breed up north in the boreal taiga and arctic tundra, the Snow Bunting and Common Redpoll, paid visit to our colleague Valerie Courtois of the Canadian Boreal Initiative recently. She lives way up in Goose Bay, Labrador, so they likely spent their winter down in southern Canada or the northern US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Love of Trees</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1074</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dchilds13</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff was recently out on vacation, so I thought I would post about an interesting article I came across last week about some of the lesser-known values trees and forests provide. Hope you enjoy&#8230;
-David

Trees in Canada&#8217;s boreal forest
Credit: Garth Lenz 
Trees, trees, and more trees. It&#8217;s hard to picture yourself embedded within a landscape of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=1066</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dchilds13</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post we highlighted the Northern Waterthrush &#8211; a small bird frequently found in mangroves throughout the Caribbean that heavily relies on the boreal forest up north for summer breeding.

Hope, in her wintering grounds in St. Croix
Credit: Lisa Yntema 
Another bird that shares such mangrove habitat and also heavily relies on the boreal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Waterthrushes On the Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Northern Waterthrush
Credit: Brian E. Small 
The Great Bird Current is flowing north and picking up volume as more and more boreal birds leave their wintering grounds on their way to the boreal forest of Canada and Alaska. They come from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, the southern U.S. and Mexico, with the largest number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Conservation Doubly Good for Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Smokestacks and tailpipes aren&#8217;t the only major source of emissions.
Credit: Wikimedia user: Dori
Although most people envision smokestacks and tailpipe exhaust when thinking about greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation is an often underreported component of our human contribution to climate change. Most estimates place carbon emissions from deforestation at somewhere between 12-25% of all human emissions at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Source of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Today is World Water Day. With high temperatures scorching much of the United States and Canada many of you may be turning World Water Day into World Water Park Day, but regardless of how you spend it we should all spend a minute to appreciate the ultimate source of life on earth.
The UN’s theme this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Arrivals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Recent warm temperatures are causing some birds to migrate early.
Credit: Garth Lenz 
Across New England and southeastern Canada we are experiencing incredibly warm March temperatures—today (March 21) it is nearly 80 degrees F in Maine (that’s about 26 Celsius) when normally we might expect temperatures perhaps in the 40-50 F range!
Birds have been arriving early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week of Waxwings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dchilds13</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s truly been the week of the waxwing here at BSI. Just a day after Gary&#8217;s wife Bette spotted a group of Bohemian Waxwings feasting on crabapples outside their home in Edmonton, Jeff spotted a solitary waxwing outside his home in Maine perched in a&#8230;you guessed it&#8230;crabapple tree! He was able to snag a quick [...]]]></description>
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