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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. I myself will be starting with the chapters on Marsh Sparrows. Le Conte’s Sparrow!” George was a tour leader for Field Guides, Inc.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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White-browed Sparrow-Weaver – Plocepasser mahali. Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow – Passer shelleyi. Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow – Passer griseus. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 26 Nov 2019. 26 Nov 2019. 26 Nov 2019.

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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

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There, you may find the Java Sparrow. If you choose the latter, your music taste is more aligned with that of Java Sparrows (though the sample size in this study , 4 birds, of which 2 preferred Bach while the other two showed no clear preference, seems rather small). No further follow-on questions (“What doe Hindu mean?

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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