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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of April 2014)

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April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. While spring is widely revered as the season of rebirth, many of us celebrate birth during this time as well. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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The Ultimate Reward

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Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia. There are five species of seal that have been recorded in the Ross Sea – Crabeater , Weddell , Leopard , Ross (first described during the James Clark Ross’s expedition) and Southern Elephant Seal.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. I saw the Cuckoo the second day of its visit.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds.

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