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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

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All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne. Contrary to alleged preferences among humans, the golden-headed cisticola has a shorter tail during the breeding season ( source ).

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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It describes how, when a veterinary drug used in India killed the vast majority of Indian vultures, the human death rate in affected locations increased by about 4% as the vultures were no longer around to feed on animal carcasses and the sanitation thus worsened substantially.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Since 2016, the Rustic Bunting has been listed as Vulnerable, as data suggested rapid population declines (HBW). On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. However, the most common bunting at Nanhui in winter is the Pallas’s Reed Bunting. led its listing as Vulnerable.

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