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“Shaking up IPAs” – Rhinegeist Brewery and Green Cheek Beer Company: Ain’t No Tang

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Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company.

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As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe

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Though these plovers are common on the North Norfolk coast, their nearest breeding grounds are far to the north. A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. A single Ringed Plover was keeping the Grey Plover company, allowing me to compare the two. A Ringed Plover. Pinkfooted Geese.

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Just had my lifer Cinereous Vulture this morning

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Before I was born, it used to be a rare breeding species in mountainous areas south of Belgrade, but became extinct after the 1960s due to intensive poisoning of wolves. Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings.

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Draai Laag Brewing Company: Haviken

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This week’s beer – and its improbable avian mascot – is Haviken, a Belgian-inspired dark ale from Draai Laag Brewing Company of Pittsburgh. Draai Laag Brewing Company: Haviken. And its challenges aren’t nearly as vexing as accipiter identification, I promise. Good birding and happy drinking! Three out of five feathers (Good).

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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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The service was fast, the dishes great, prices moderate and the company priceless. However, during a storm the chains that kept it anchored broke off and the raft is now stranded on the shore, accessible to stray dogs and not used for breeding. The next day was the one when I woke up early – the only time on this trip.

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¡Cuerporruín!

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The best laid plans… Last week, I had hoped to get permission to get onto the campus of one or Morelia’s many universities, to look for a family of Wood Ducks that apparently have arrived to spend the winter in its unusual habitat of marshy forest. While some American Kestrels breed in central Mexico, most are migratory.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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