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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; spot the bird</title>
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		<title>Finding birds in Paris (or Spot the Bird Île de France edition) Part 1</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/finding-birds-in-paris-or-spot-the-bird-ile-de-france-edition-part-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s deal with this straight away: if you&#8217;re a birder tuning in to learn where to find birds in Paris, then, despite its clear title &#8220;Finding Birds in Paris&#8221;, I&#8217;m afraid this two-part post will disappoint.  It is not intended to offer technical advice about how many species of mésange you might see in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kea key: spoiler alert!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/kea-key-spoiler-alert</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably found the bird already &#8212; it&#8217;s a kea &#8212; but if not below is a partially colorized version of the photo in the previous Spot the Bird post.
This big alpine parrot, its head partially obscured by vegetation, was one of the freeloaders who hang out near the line of cars waiting to pass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me: reminiscing about our trip to New Zealand a while back.  You: trying to Spot the Bird.
It shouldn&#8217;t be too hard, but here&#8217;s a hint: you&#8217;re looking for a parrot.  Now don&#8217;t go clicking on the photo to enlarge it right off the bat, you&#8217;ll make it too easy!  (And, by the way, it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the bird (easy)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-easy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I realize that this is a very easy Spot the Bird.  Although it was hiding among the lower branches of a mesquite, the bird is very easy to spot, here in the photo.  But, driving past, not so easy.  And it doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s easy to spot.  The bird, a Greater Roadrunner, thinks it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new Spot the Bird&#8230; kind of</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/a-new-spot-the-bird-kind-of</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s not actually a bird.  Perhaps these posts should be called &#8220;Not the Bird&#8221;. 
Here is an appropriately faded Old West-y snap shot of a neighbor of ours, taken with my cell phone.  Can you spot the non-avian subject?  It&#8217;s a Desert Iguana, posing with dignity as if for a Victorian formal portrait, lurking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird answer: rock and wren</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-answer-rock-and-wren</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the right is the photo key to the Rock wren of the current Spot the Bird.  Rock wrens rock one of my favorite Latin names in the bird world (along with Upupa epops, the hoopoe): Salpinctes obsoletus.  According to Choate, the name comes from Greek salpinctes, &#8220;a trumpeter&#8221; and Latin obsoletus, &#8220;indistinct&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird: rock and wren</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-rock-and-wren</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had a SPOT THE BIRD.
Rock wrens, Salpinctes obsoletus, live among rocks in the arid mountain and desert west.  Here are some rocks.  These rocks are along the Castle Hotsprings Road between Phoenix and Wickenburg, AZ.  There is a Rock wren in these rocks.  If you could hear the wren, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The key is the beak</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-key-is-the-beak</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted the latest Spot the Bird, a shot of a Mexican wetland that contained hard-to-see birds.  It was a tough one.

Here&#8217;s the key.  The hidden birds are three Black-bellied whistling ducks, visible in the sea of green only by looking carefully for their bright coral-red bills, a tag of chestnut plumage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird: bright beak gray cheek</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-bright-beak-gray-cheek</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of my friend Kate seeing Black-bellied whistling ducks in New Orleans, here is a Black-bellied whistling duck Spot the Bird.
The photo was taken in a coastal wetland in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, in Ocotber of 2008.  I was scanning the greenery with binx when I spotted the ducks &#8212; I suspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owls dislike Autumn because&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/owls-dislike-autumn-because</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to hide in bright, falling foliage if you&#8217;re a flying tiger&#8230;
Here&#8217;s one of a pair of Great Horned Owls we happened upon yesterday in a cottonwood grove along the Verde River east of the Phoenix metro area.  We were scouting for Tuesday&#8217;s official Christmas Bird Count of the Rio Verde area, and accidentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key to the Goldfinches Spot the Bird</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/key-to-the-goldfinches-spot-the-bird</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT!!

Here are the three goldfinches in yesterday&#8217;s Spot the Bird, highlighted in color for ease of viewing.

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		<title>Spot the bird: Lesser goldfinch fressing</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-lesser-goldfinch-fressing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We planted sunflowers in the garden for the goldfinch; it seems to have worked.
Now that the flower heads are mature and seedful on the stalks, the bushes are crowded with Lesser goldfinch. There are lots more flowers in bloom, which will keep the hungry finches supplied into the fall or even early winter.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boss in her office: &#8220;checking for lard&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-boss-in-her-office-checking-for-lard</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-boss-in-her-office-checking-for-lard#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a Spot the Bird, although it's less of a quiz than a photo series. All photos A or E Shock.  Click to enlarge.]
Here are some feral date palms, growing wild at a substantial oasis in Death Valley, CA.  The date palm is Phoenix dactylifera (&#8220;finger-bearing&#8221;), but in this case we could call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interim Spot the Bird&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/an-interim-spot-the-bird</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;without a bird.  Not that there isn&#8217;t something to spot. And it is spotted.  Also, toes are pretty much always a giveaway. (Photo A.Shock; click to enlarge for easy viewing)
This is an &#8220;interim&#8221; Spot the Bird because about a third of our photos from our Mojave camping trip are locked onto a recalcitrant memory card.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Spot the Bird, sort of</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-spot-the-bird-sort-of</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a swell photo of a Sora we saw at Tavasci Marsh last weekend.  I&#8217;ve categorized this as a Spot the Bird, but your eye will probably go right to it, since it&#8217;s out in the open.  The little rail had whinnied a couple of times &#8212; Sora make a sound very much like those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Bird Spots You</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-bird-spots-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not familiar with Gilded flickers (Colaptes chrysoides), they are large desert woodpeckers, closely associated with Saguaros.  They excavate their nest cavities in the trunks of the giant cactus.  They&#8217;re closely related to Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted flickers who inhabit the western and eastern U.S., respectively.  Flickers are flashy in coloration, being spotted and barred, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the bird answers</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-answers</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to post the Spot the Bird answers from the Twofer Spot the Bird a couple days ago &#8212; thanks to everyone who got back to Three Star Owl with your observations.  Finding the birds seemed to be fairly easy; ID&#8217;ing only a little less so. These two key photos are click-onable to embiggen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equal time: the Bird Spots YOU</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/equal-time-the-bird-spots-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to even things up, here&#8217;s what it feels like to be BIRD-WATCHED:
(Photo E.Shock)
This is &#8220;Hoover&#8221; the semi-tame wild African collared dove who inhabits our neighborhood, wondering why we don&#8217;t have a handful of peanuts NOW.
To indulge in a moment of natural history, notice how the eye is set in a slightly pinched or narrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twofer Spot the Bird</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/twofer-spot-the-bird</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two new Spot the Bird photos.  The visual puzzle is the same in each: huge background, tiny bird.  No camouflage involved, none at all; just hiding against a big landscape.
The first photo of an enormous oaktree (?) in Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior Arizona, east of Phoenix, is a photo I took because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New!  Spot the Bird!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post, Spot the Pipit, inadvertently marked the inauguration of a series of themed posts in this webjournal: Spot the Bird. 
After posting Spot the Pipit, it occurred to me that in the Three Star Owl photo files were other pix which showed birds that were more or less hard to see, but which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Pipit! plus: gallery of international pipits (a bird with a view)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a small bird in this photo of lakeside rocks.  Can you spot the pipit?
Sunday E and I watched an American pipit (Anthus rubescens; photo E.Shock) working its way along water&#8217;s edge at Burnt Corral on Apache Lake east of Phoenix, darting after flies. beetles, larvae and other yummies around the cobbles in the shallow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vertical Napping Bark: it&#8217;s hard to see an owl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kate McKinnon recently posted that she has a hard time seeing owls in the wild, and she takes it personally.  Well she should, because an owl&#8217;s Primary Goal other than to eat something, is to escape detection, by you, by me, by a thoughtless human with a crossbow, by the other bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Old Papago Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my simple pleasures is going on early morning walks with E around the buttes in Papago Park.  We can walk there from our house, and though the walks are for health, we always make note of birds and the other animals we see.

 A first impression of this landscape is accurate: a [...]]]></description>
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