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Birding Acapulco

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During the period from 1994 through 2006, I mostly dedicated myself to itinerant ministry. My wife and I have been pastoring a local church since 2006, which discourages too much travelling. We saw lots of the usual Heron, Egret, Cormorant, and Pelican suspects. In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend.

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Brian Stoneman has fallen asleep

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That is how we met, back in 2006. My wife has chosen Bodrum for our vacation, while I checked the Internet and met the birdman of Bodrum.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

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The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. Among them are Dalmatian Pelicans , so big and lazy. Going even lower, we add a Cirl Bunting and a Syrian Woodpecker.

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Grey-headed Lapwing in Australia

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The first record in Australia, initially observed by Karen and Brett Davis, was in the small township of Burren Burren in northern New South Wales on 19th June 2006. It remained in the area until 7th October 2006 and was accepted by the Birds Australia Rarities Committee as Case no.

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What Will My Next Ten Birds in Queens Be?

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Brown Pelican Lapland Longspur Sooty Shearwater Whimbrel. Brown Pelican - There was only one reported since my last prediction and that was a single observer sight record way off the coast. Yellow-breasted Chat* Long-eared Owl* Cory’s Shearwater* White Ibis.

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Melbourne to Beaumaris along the coast

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I had observed several Black Swans along the coast and some of them were wearing neck bands and were originally banded as far back as 2006 at Albert Park and had moved to the coast to feed. A lone Australian Pelican waddled across the sand and back into the sea in search of food in the late afternoon light. Australian Pelican.

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Evening Grosbeaks Really Do Exist

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Wood Stork and White Pelican. But between 1988 and 2006, Project Feedwatch showed a fifty-percent decline in Evening Grosbeak sightings. Little by little, I expanded my horizons. One by one, birds that I’d thought of as pictures on a page became real. Little Auk and Red-throated Loon. Orchard Oriole and Prothonotary Warbler.

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