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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands. Towards the end of the winter though a business trip was to take me first to Belgium and then to northern Germany, and going through the Netherlands past that particular village was just a minor detour.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Barnacle geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic, while the nearest wintering areas also lie along the northern coasts of Europe: the Netherlands and the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden). There are 5 published records since mid-20th century, the last one of six birds in 2006.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany).

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