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Birds & Beers
Upcoming dates and presentations:
Special Event: Thursday February 26 – Calgary Christmas Bird Count and Fish Creek Park Count Results. Matt Wallace and Jim Washbrook presenting.
Thursday March 12 – Jody Allaire. “Inspired by Birds.”
Thursday April 9 – Karen Keller. Antactica.
Thursday May 14 – John & Maria Kimber. The Galapogos Islands.
Special Event: Saturday May 16 – Gavin McKinnon and David Scott Book Launch: A Field Guide to the Birds of Alberta.
Thursday June 11 – Steven Boucher. Planning Birding Travel: Contrasting Razzle, Dazzle with more intimate Self-Guided Birding trips.
Birds & Beers takes a break in the summer before resuming in September.
Bird sightings, especially rare or reportable birds, should be posted to the Listserv Albertabird. It's an excellent place to read about recent sightings, share your lists and report rare birds. You can read the messages without joining, but if you want to post your sightings you'll have to join the group Albertabird .
Rare or notable birds should also be reported to James Fox at fox.james.ed[at]gmail.com, 780.999.0642. See this post for guidelines.
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Nature Calgary is the local umbrella group for natural history enthusiasts. Here is a link to the
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Nature hikes in the Calgary area, Kananaskis, and the mountain National Parks, led by John McFaul and Julia Millen.
Alpenglow Nature Hikes. 
It’s SO Beautiful!
Great pictures. It looks similar to a Northern Mockingbird, is it smaller?
It’s a little smaller than a mockingbird, but very similar in shape. The main differences are the big white eye-ring on the Solitaire (mockingbirds have a dark eye line), and the buffy wingstripe that you can see best in the first photo (mockingbirds have some white in the wings).
How beautiful! I spotted one I thought was this, but they tell me mine is a Juvenile European Starling! I was so disappointed as it is unusual here in Ontario.