Living Bird Summer 2016—Table Of Contents

Feature Articles

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  Hard Knocks: Going to Extremes to Study the Secretive Helmeted Woodpecker

  By Tim Gallagher

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

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  Will We Soon See Another Wave of Bird Extinctions in the Americas?

  By Alexander Lees and Jacob Socolar

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

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  Spruce-Woods Warblers Revisited: 60 Years Later, the Cast of Characters Has Changed

  By Irby Lovette

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

  The famous spruce-woods study site of Robert MacArthur is behind an iconic landmark—the Bass Harbor Lighthouse at Maine’s Acadia National Park. Photo by Aaron Keigher/ Minden Pictures.
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  A Noble Vision of Gulls

  Commonly despised as noisy despoilers of picnics, gulls are actually adept communicators, model parents, and fierce defenders of their homeland.

  By David Bonter and Shailee Shah

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

  Herring Gull by Peter Orr via Birdshare.
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  Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warblers Are 99.97 Percent Alike Genetically

  By Gustave Axelson

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

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  Recreating a Home Where Buffalo Can Roam (and Burrowing Owls, Too)

  By Ben Pierce

  From the Summer 2016 issue of Living Bird magazine.

  Burrowing Owl by Ray Hennessy via Birdshare.