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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. This current winter is no exception, and at the time of writing there are no fewer than five to be seen at four different locations. With luck I might well see the Cley bird again before it heads back to Siberia.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

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Apparently, King Parrot are an Australian grindcore band formed in Melbourne in 2010. Wikipedia uses the same source to provide the same information as for the Little Pied Cormorant on the appearance of the eggs over time: “They become increasingly stained with feces, as does the nest, over the duration of the breeding season.”

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience.

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The Marsh Wren Singing and Gathering Nesting Material

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It is obvious to me that the male Marsh Wrens at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge are getting ready for the females to visit their breeding territories. Back in the 2010 breeding season, I was able to observe a male building a nest at this exact same time of year.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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We start with Lendrum being arrested in 2010 at the Birmingham (U.K.) a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer). The book is structured cinematically.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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million people (2010 census). Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

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