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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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This week’s wine is the 2016 Lobo e Falcão Reserva from the 17 th -century estate of Quinta do Casal Branco , located in the Tejo region upriver from Lisbon. Portuguese merchants in Japan with their hunting companions – a falcon and a leashed perdigueiro Português (Portuguese pointer) – in a detail from a c.

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Gantheaume Point shorebirds

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The 2016 tide chart is also useful if you want to see the dinosaur footprints at Gantheaume Point, because you need the tide to be below 2.16m for them to be visible and due care is required over slippery rocks. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

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This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.

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