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	<description>A Bird Blog with Kate St. John</description>
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		<title>Looking For Birds in Their Winter Habitat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a mild winter in Pittsburgh but we haven&#8217;t had any prairie warblers in town. Since the birds aren&#8217;t coming here, I&#8217;m going on a short trip to see them in their winter habitat in Florida. Chuck &#038; Joan Tague will help me find them. (photo by Chuck Tague)]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Trees: Black Cherry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s tree is easy to identify all year simply by looking at its bark. Black cherry (Prunus serotina) is a medium to large tree, 50 to 100 feet tall.  Mature trees have dark colored bark that looks like burnt potato chips.  The shadowy photo above accentuates the chips. In bright light the trunk looks paler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Moon, Let&#8217;s Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do owls hoot more when the moon is full? Eurasian eagle owls do.  Maybe great horned owls do too. In 2009 biologists conducted a study in Spain to find out if moonlight influenced Eurasian eagle owl vocalizations. They radio-tagged 26 breeding eagle owls and tracked them continuously during all phases of the moon. When the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/02/07/full-moon-lets-talk/</link>
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		<title>New Guide to Petrels, Albatrosses and Storm-Petrels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For humans the sea is the last frontier, a place so foreign we think it&#8217;s uninhabited.  But it&#8217;s not.  The open ocean is home to millions of birds we never see on land:  petrels, albatrosses and storm-petrels. Acclaimed ornithologist and author, Steve N. G. Howell, has written an excellent reference book about them, newly published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/02/06/new-guide-to-petrels-albatrosses-and-storm-petrels/</link>
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		<title>Pairing Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like February.  Not for its weather but because it&#8217;s the time when peregrine falcons begin to court and claim territory in Pennsylvania. After months of inactivity peregrine pairs are hanging out together and making their claims quite obvious.  Last Friday Dorothy and E2 did this by perching at the highest point at the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Currently Residing in Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the warblers are gone in the winter, where do they live? Black-throated blue warblers live in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.  Some are at Trinidad.  Some are on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan, Belize, and Honduras. In three months, they&#8217;ll be back. Think Spring. (photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Quiz: Bottoms Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Hickey found these ducks in Delaware last month. Can you identify them with their bottoms up? Leave a comment with your answer. (photo by Charlie Hickey)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/02/03/friday-quiz-bottoms-up/</link>
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		<title>Time To Wake Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Groundhog Day all over again. Moments ago (at 7:25am EST) Punxsutawney Phil emerged from hibernation, looked for his shadow, saw it(!) and told us we&#8217;ll have six more weeks of winter.  Amazing&#8230; considering how warm it&#8217;s been. Every year Phil&#8217;s predictions are preceded by a week of partying and fireworks, and accompanied by much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/02/02/time-to-wake-up/</link>
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		<title>Winter Trees: Black Locust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine from Maryland once remarked that Pittsburgh has ugly trees.  &#8220;The gnarled ones look like devil trees,&#8221; she said. Though she didn&#8217;t know their name I think she was referring to black locusts whose winter profile can look spooky. Black locusts (Robinia pseudoacacia) grow in twisted shapes if they&#8217;ve been broken, badly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/02/01/winter-trees-black-locust/</link>
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		<title>In a Snow Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 20 &#8211; February 11 is the time for Pennsylvania&#8217;s Winter Raptor Survey (WRS) when volunteers drive prescribed routes and tally the number of raptors they see. Many volunteers post their counts on PABIRDS where we learn that our most numerous winter raptors are red-tailed hawks.  (No surprise there!) The reports include weather and snow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2012/01/31/in-a-snow-year/</link>
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