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Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015)

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There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. In keeping with this unpleasant precedent, a supernatural creature is found in the folklore of Denmark called the valravn , an unearthly, macabre being that traditionally takes the form of a raven.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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