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It feels like spring….

10,000 Birds

It’s actually found in a wadi in the United Arab Emirates, in the mountains between Dubai and the Gulf of Oman. According to the rather odd and quaint rules for collective terms for birds, groups of Striolated Buntings are called a whole bunch.) Long may it last. A whole bunch coming for a drink.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

The world of birding is filled with challenging groups well known to all, birds like gulls , Empidonax flycatchers or cisticolas that require attention to the tiniest details in order to assign an individual to a specific species (if it can be done at all). Compare this to the next bird… Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates.

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