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Oostvaardersplassen

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However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). At the Praambult look-out point it’s always clear you are in the Netherlands. He even got a large Moose fed-exed to Paris to prove the point.

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Ugandan Birding for Businessmen

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By Peter Penning Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). He passively supports BirdLife in the Netherlands and South Africa and actively in Portugal as treasurer of SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves.

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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” “This lodge owes its fame to a 3-yards-long, moss-covered bird feeder table.

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Our Favorite Bird Books of 2023

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Dragan) Before starting Birdingplaces.eu , Chris van der Heijden worked for BirdLife in The Netherlands. You have to love a book that describes Lark Sparrow as “WOW! ” To tell you the truth, I do not know how I made it without this guide for such a long time. Absolutely highest recommendation.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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The Rose-ringed Parakeet’s European (=feral) range is surprisingly coherent for an introduced bird that is dependent on large metropolitan areas, and the species occurs in very decent numbers from UK’s London throughout the Netherland’s large cities all the way up along the Rhine to Germany’s Heidelberg.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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The species is classified as Near Threatened – in particular, numbers in the Netherlands have decreased substantially, and the chicks are negatively affected by intensified agriculture (HBW). A paper examining the negative effects of flooding on the breeding success of Black-tailed Godwits is titled “Sink or Swim?

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In which I put a Beach Boys song in your head

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Outside of the ubiquitous House Sparrows , this is probably the most common bird on the island. Brown-throated Parakeet is a pretty common species across much of Central American and northern South America, true, but Aruba, just like the other two islands that make up the Netherlands Antilles, has its very own endemic subspecies, arubensis.