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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Lesser White-fronted Goose and Greater Spotted Eagle came to mind, but what else? I am scoping Great Cormorants roosting in their colony in the (now dry) flooded forest, there is one… eagle to the right of them. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four?

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Jochen’s 2017 year list

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However, I started to fail in the following year, and my blog post on 2015 is still – to this day – incomplete. Therefore, this year’s goal is simple: In 2017, I want to enjoy birds as much as possible. White-tailed Eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla. 16 Jan : a boring train ride to attend a meeting in Bonn.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! ” Steller’s Sea-Eagle, Boothbay Harbor, January 24, 2022 Copyright © 2022 Donna L. It has wings. It can fly.”

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Horus Aged Ales: Osprey’s Fresh Catch

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There isn’t much in the way of “official” information about Horus Aged Ales, a brewery founded in 2015 by an ambitious homebrewer named Kyle Harrop, who still works by day as an accountant in the aerospace industry. A close-up of Spring Whitaker’s remarkable can art. Good birding and happy drinking!

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

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Most of these are common/abundant residential and migratory birds (and, this being Kruger, that includes five Hornbill species, four Sunbird species, a Trogon, five Owl species, and many other goodies); uncommon and striking-but-rare species are also included, so we have Storks, Martial Eagle, and Pel’s Fishing-Owl. Paperback, 224p.,

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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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. Golden Eagle – Two weeks to the day after the Say’s Phoebe I was once again at Edgemere with my family and picked up a Golden Eagle flying past , a surprise bird for sure!

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