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Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014)

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Thanks to industrialization and modern transportation, the various labors required to make beer are often separated by great distances and divided by vocation. That isn’t to say that all are welcome: the wine industry expends a great deal of money and effort every year in keeping birds and other hungry pests away from its vines.

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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mi2 of the Danube Backwaters in 2014 (cover photo). It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 In the summer of 2015, that proposal was scheduled for voting in the City Assembly, but was withdrawn before the vote took place. mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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Paradise Regained

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I kind of expected to see some sort of industrial wasteland; but a fair amount of forest is still there. It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. So on March 29th, I steeled myself emotionally, and went back to Pino Real for the first time in 18 months.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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Both are part of what one paper calls the Brown Hawk Owl complex – something that is much less objectionable than the military-industrial complex but (at least to me) not really a lot more interesting. Market prices have tracked demand: in 1987 birds retailed for $ 14, rising to $ 44 in 2014 and $ 99 in 2016.”

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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

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Source: Inventarisation of birds in Tara National Park in 2013 and 2014 by Jankovic et al, Ciconia 22-23:14-28; and Znacajne vrste ptica nacionalnog parka Tara by Rajkovic and Pantovic, 2019 Getting your bearings Tara National Park lies three and a half hours southwest of Belgrade.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. 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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