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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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However, it is only a short taxi ride away from the airport where most travelers will arrive at – better to see birds instead of just eating fast food while waiting for a connecting flight. The US company NE Pigeon Supplies presumably is involved in supplying materials to keep and breed pigeons.

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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

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Higher up on the Balangshan pass, Yellow-billed Choughs (Alpine Chough) benefit from the local fast food available for sale there, along with the limited environmental consciousness of some of the tourists. The chicks do their usual thing of just being pesky and clamoring for food … … mostly successfully. A juvenile.

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Monterrey Meetings

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For my next visit in the following summer, we decided to organize a company birding trip to La Estanzuela – another treasure spot in the Cumbres. We met Marilyn and Leonardo at a non-descript fast-food joint’s parking lot and within 10 minutes we were in Parque Nacional La Estanzuela.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Fast food containers are popular. “An The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.”

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Iguanas Love Roti!

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But, as Wikipedia points out, it has taken on a new meaning in the Caribean: The roti wrap is the commercialization of roti and curry as a fast-food item in the Caribbean. He is also the managing director of Paria Springs , an ecotourism company though his business card has his title as “Adventurer/Naturalist.”

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Twitchers are Losers

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I like birding my local patches and when I find the occasional mini-rarity it gives me far more of a thrill than seeing a bird in the company of dozens. But the more I bird the less I feel the need to chase after other birder’s finds. Almost every birder has chased at least one bird at some point and that’s alright.

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On "Food Inc."

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We are made to believe not only that the tens of thousands of products available in the store come from different companies/sources, but that they are the result of good old fashioned farming that to this day we teach our children about in their books and their toys. And then the way we eat causes diabetes. That's criminal.

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