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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Read on to find out what it is! What was yours?

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Russians Introducing Leopards Back to Caucusus

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While I think the gesture is nice, it appears to be more of a publicity stunt to head off environmental criticism of the 2014 Olympic Games construction. "We Russia won the right to host 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and major construction works are about to begin.

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Amazing Alcids at Shinnecock Inlet

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And it had been awhile: my last visit there was in 2014!) Then, after about half-an-hour of birding I took a break from scanning the far jetty through my scope and was amazed to notice a Razorbill floating right next to the jetty, nearly at my feet! When it popped up I managed to miss it again before it dove.

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. Too little, too late – yes; but still a step in the right direction. You guessed it right – the hunting lobby used their influence for political pressures. And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU.

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Predicting My Next Ten Queens Birds

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Since I saw my first in February of 2014 at Breezy Point I have had two more encounters, both in February of 2015, both at Jacob Riis Park. This pair of birds on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond had been around for several days by the time that I got to see them in early September 2014. Lapland Longspur, 31 Oct 2010, 17 Feb 2014.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, a forest so young that birds still have no names, part 1

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They were too childish, right? On July 8, 2014, the Colombian government declared this area as the Ramsar site Estrella Fluvial de Inírida – the River Star of Inírida. I couldn’t help thinking: this is the way to grow up, not playing games in front of the computer screen. – Thamnophilus sp. end of part 1 –.

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Why You Should Make Friends with Biologists

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Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a birders’ chat group, it took just over a month for the first biologist/ornithologist to visit me. Let the games begin! It seems he had looked long and wide for this species. Thanks, Alberto! (If

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