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Top ten birds for 2016

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The same experience was to be had at Rutland Water, so watch out for the sneaky upside down ducks! White-breasted Dipper has to be my number one bird for 2016 and it is quite simply a beautiful little bird that we had never observed in the UK! Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! Pintail Duck.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of November 2016)

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We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency.

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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

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We work with the best guides so our guests not only have outstanding hotel services in Mindo Cloud Forest, but they will also have a top-notch experience. Julia Patiño has 20+ years of experience guiding in birding tours and is one of the first women guides in Ecuador! Marcelo Arias has 25+ years of experience guiding.

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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. Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016). The post Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of January 2016)

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He didn’t see them do a courtship dance but their elegance was more than enough to leave him happy about the experience. Since 2016 has been pretty birdless for me so far, I’ll go with my first bird of the year, American Crow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2016)

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The year 2016 has just surrendered its first month to the abyss of time, leaving lingering memories of January warmth in its wake. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Thus, your birding year is one-twelfth over; happy with your year list so far?

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