![]() Twitter is a key media, providing fast and easy to reach information. They will follow several Facebook pages dedicated to birding. Twitching can be an all-consuming lifestyle. I needed to be with my own subspecies!” *9. I just wouldn't have been able to put it into words for these humans. “It wasn't just tension, you understand: it was the sheer, unadulterated joy within of being on Scilly when something BIG was happening. In this scenario he is stuck on a boat full of non-birders as he tries to travel to another island to spot a very rare bird that has been blown off-course by hurricanes from North America. British birder Graham Gordon expresses the cocktail mix of panic and euphoria when a rare bird turns up. For twitchers, the thrill of the chase is often as important as seeing the bird. They may travel vast distances to see vagrant birds, to study an unfamiliar species, to add the bird to their list (see glossary) or simply to be part of the birding “event” surrounding this birds occurrence. The USA is well served with similar events occurring at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival (Harlingen, Texas, 2288 visitors 2014 *6), Cape May Fall Festival (Cape May, New Jersey, c.1500 visitors 2014 *7), Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival (Florida, c.5340 visitors 2014 *8).Īre a birders with an express interest in chasing rare birds. Guided tours, lectures, ID workshops, birding celebrities and of course, fantastic birding are all part of the programme. In Ohio, the Biggest Week In American Birding is a 10-day pilgrimage for many birders to THE place in the world to see the colourful North American wood warblers. In 2014, 215 birders were registered taking part in the festival, with c.4000 birders visiting the area that spring *5. ![]() Participants pay to take part in guided tours around the birding hotspots and evening presentations. The Eilat Birds Festival champions all things birding in Israel. The aim of most of these is to bring people together to go birding and celebrate a certain area. Firaxis if you are reading this.On top of this, there is a wide number of annual birding festivals across the world. It's just sad to see this lack of polish in a AAA production title like Civ V. All other modern games I've tried (XCOM, Shogun 2, Battlefield 3, etc.) scale really well to this 2560x1440 resolution. I would expect smaller resolution images like this in older games, but not in newer games like Civ V. The menu backgrounds really bother me though. I guess the second one is less noticeable. It's not bad for the most part, but the blue-ish bar on the right doesn't fit the full height of my screen. This second one shows the city screen UI. This low resolution black border image also shows up on loading screen images as well. This first one is the menu with the smaller BG. ![]() If a game supports these higher resolution in video settings, then you would think they would test and polish for those resolutions as well? Some of the in game UI elements like the fancy chrome borders don't scale to 1440 height either. Civ V plays well, but the menu backgrounds have black borders at sides AND top & bottom. Now that I am playing on a 2560x1440 monitor, it's sad to see how many games are broken at that resolution.
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