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Are You Going to the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

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I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015! Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring? Oh, and I’ll make sure to harass Jeff Gordon about why Green Heron wasn’t chosen as the 2015 American Birding Association Bird of the Year. Ditto for the feral Muscovy Ducks , though they are a bit less nice.

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Birding Singapore

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The only bird-related activity I can think of is looking at bird photos I took in Singapore in 2015, and adding some irrelevant comments to them. If you take a feral pigeon, bleach it and then batik it using the right colors, the result might be a Pink-necked Green Pigeon (1).

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.). Feral Pigeon – Columba livia dom. Callisto studies of bear diet prove that about 90% of their food in Greece is plants, mostly fleshy and dry fruits.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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Pranty had a particular challenge for Florida, where exotics and feral forms of species like Mallard are seen throughout the state, especially in the southern peninsula. ” In addition, he adds ten exotic/feral species to the checklist in the back of the book, astericking them as non-official checklist birds.

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I screamed: Ural Owl!

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Talking of gulls, I had a new meeting with an old acquaintance, the Black-headed Gull ringed in 2013 in the north of the country that I already met twice in 2015 and now again – I even recognized its ring because the combination of letters sounds a bit like “Yahoo”. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia. Common Gull – Larus canus.

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Duncan’s 2015 List

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Rock Dove, or Feral Pigeon, ( Columba livia ); Johannesburg Airport, South Africa, 4 January. Birding 2015 year list Year List 2015' Yellow-throated Sandgrouse ( Pterocles gutturalis ); Madikwe, South Africa, 18 February. Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus); Chobe NP, Botswana, 4 January. COLUMBIDAE (PIGEONS).

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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(His guides include our own Patrick O’Donnell, who leads Dunn on a quest to see as many hummingbird species as possible across Costa Rica in just two days, an adventure described in his 2015 post “ A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica.”)