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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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It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs. Between 900 and 1,600 pairs of this species breed in Serbia, mainly in the north. The distribution of this species is limited to South-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the area around the Black and the Caspian Sea in western Asia.

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

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Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. I love reading the descriptions of these birds’ breeding behavior.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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.” It is a relief to eventually reach the chapter on The Life of Waterfowl, written in a much more conversational style and unashamedly fascinated with waterfowl’s unique breeding behaviors. ” Crossley himself wrote “most” of the Introduction and is responsible for the visual Species Accounts and text.

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