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	<title>Wingnut</title>
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	<description>Wingnut bird watching blog</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What if chickens were wild birds?</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/09/02/what-if-chickens-were-wild-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird identification]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thought of the day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, this is a barnyard chicken. It&#8217;s a bird, though, whether or not we think of it in the same terms as warblers and raptors. And it&#8217;s a beautiful bird. I&#8217;m partial to chickens. The chicken display at the state fair is a can&#8217;t-miss stop for me. Think of this bird as wild, uncommon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Lakes Nature Guide</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/09/01/great-lakes-nature-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a nature hike or a picnic or a weekend at the cabin it’s hard to have at hand all of the books you would need to answer questions about the more usual living things you might see. If I stack up my favorite bird, mammal, herp, flower, and tree guide books, well, it’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major source of NA bird information</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/30/major-source-of-na-bird-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird websites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most complete and accessible bird-information resource for North American bird species is now available to anyone with a Hennepin County Library card. Card-holders can access the wealth of life-history information, along with photos and sound recordings, for every species of bird that breeds in North America. My printed set, bought several years ago before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mute Swans</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/26/mute-swans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird conservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird interactions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Feral Mute Swans are collectors&#8217; items for Minnesota birders, but birds of a different feather in Michigan. My wife and I rode the ferry today that travels across Lake Michigan between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee. We saw about four dozen Mute Swans in the Muskegon harbor. There are several thousaned of these birds in Michigan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best kind of birding</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/25/best-kind-of-birding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird identification]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Go places to go birding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My all-time favorite kind of birding is done on boats on oceans. I&#8217;ve taken several trips off the California coasts, but until a couple of days ago only one Atlantic trip, that out of North Carolina. Pelagic birding cannot match whale-watching for popularity, so one day last week Jude and I boarded a whale-watching vessel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on the end of the story</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/23/musings-on-the-end-of-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird conservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Birds and politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Tierney wrote in a recent edition of &#8220;The New York Times&#8221; (science section) about climate change, and the fat chance we have of a sincere political solution. He is not optimistic. Me neither. There is no political will to bite hard on the issue. We beat around the edges of things, pasting impressive titles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Pine Symposium and festival at Reinaissance Fest</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/21/jack-pine-symposium-and-festival-at-reinaissance-fest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird conservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird websites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kirtland&#8217;s Warblers had a wonderful 2009 breeding season in Wisconsin, a continuing successful expansion of their historically restricted breeding territory in Michigan. April 25-26 in Odanad, Wisconsin, near the Michigan border, to talk about the season, the birds, and how to continue this incredible effort. The program is aimed at foresters, ecologists, land managers, biologists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds: what prose cannot say</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/20/birds-what-prose-cannot-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
My appreciation of poetry pretty much stalled early in grade school. I favor rhyming verses. And so, when given the book “Bright Wings, An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds,” I approached this review with hesitation. In its favor was its editor, Billy Collins, who doesn’t rhyme often if at all, but whose wit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do some Red-eyed Vireos not migrate?</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/17/why-do-some-red-eyed-vireos-not-migrate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Red-eyed Vireo is a ubiquitous bird species found throughout the eastern United States, across the northern tier of states to Washington and well into Canada. It is one of our neo-tropical migrants, arriving here in the spring to breed, migrating back to South America in late summer. It winters throughout northern South America. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin names</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut/2009/08/14/latin-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird identification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birds have common names and scientific names. Both offer valuable information, the latter often more informative and entertaining. I have a book entitled &#8220;The Dictionary of American Bird Names.&#8221; It was written by Ernest A. Choate, published by The Harvard Common Press in 1985. It&#8217;s both a useful reference tool and great fun to read. [...]]]></description>
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