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Thirteen years of weekly posts

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As I sit at my desk writing this post about the latest attempt at breeding for one of our pairs of Pied Oystercatchers I realise I have written 677 posts now for this website. This rocky area high up beyond the beach sand offers great camouflage and protection. I suppose they know me!

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A Pied Oystercatcher family

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It has been twelve weeks now since the first pair of Pied Oystercatchers attempted to breed along the stretch of beach that we survey and as with each year there have been setbacks. There was a long stretch of beach that did not have a breeding pair, but it was in amongst the vehicles and nudists that frequent the area at this time of year.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities. Next to them, Whiskered and Black Terns nest on floating leaves of White Water-lilies.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Not good, I think – it will probably be another scorcher.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. million dollars for habitat conservation.

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