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Blue Monday turned Black Monday – a picture story

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The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China. It was therefore well worth having to clean my desk of the coffee I spilled.

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Waxwings and their kin: Meet the bombycillids

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2008), but how the bombycillid lineages are related to each other, and whether the various subgroups deserve family, subfamily, or tribe status, all still remains to be seen. The Hypocolius (sometimes styled as Grey Hypocolius , Hypocolius ampelinus ) is a fruit-eating, migratory bird of southwest Asia. Spellman et al. Hypocolius.

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THE BIGGEST URBAN PYGMY CORMORANT ROOST IN THE WORLD DECREASED!

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For more than 10 years during which the League for Ornithological Action has been following the Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade, the maximum number was recorded in the winter of 2007/2008, when the population counted 6,750 individuals. Cover photo (c) by Maciej Szymanski.

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From Today's New York Times

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Without our strong alliance with South Korea, our influence in Asia would be vastly diminished. June 12, 2008 Note from KBJ: If South Koreans were truly concerned with their health , they wouldn't be eating beef in the first place. Let us keep that fact clearly in mind, as we deal with the fractious beef issue.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

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Plate 36: Genus Chlamydera 1; illustration copyright © Richard Allen, text copyright © Phil Gregory.

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Land Bridges are Back in Season!

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The Silktail, ( Lamprolia victoriae ) by Tom Tarrant (CC) A 2008 paper on the phylogeny of the species and several others came to a surprising conclusion, that the species was actually related to the fantails. Indeed it was part of that family.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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Jessie Barry has worked for the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology since 2008, most recently as Program Manager, Macaulay Library and Merlin Project Leader. .” Crossley himself wrote “most” of the Introduction and is responsible for the visual Species Accounts and text.

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