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MARCH 29, 2019

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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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 128

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JANUARY 1, 2018

If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000). See our popular 2016 videos post for more of these gems, I didn’t duplicate any I listed there in this list. Related: The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2016 – The Most Popular Videos on The W.

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2017 PDSA 2015 2013 100

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 223

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MARCH 17, 2016

And now, researchers from Japan, Germany and Sweden confirmed what I knew all the time, like if I needed them to tell me so. Toshitaka Suzuki, David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser (2016) Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10986.

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Sweden Research Japan Germany 177

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A laughing matter (Japan was first to laugh at it, saying it doesn’t give a …, well, not in those exact words). Turn your eyes to the European Union which could have stopped it in 2016, but chose not to. The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species. But I do not feel amused by it.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 186

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APRIL 10, 2016

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. The Terek Sandpiper flagged in Japan was also present on the rocks! Urgent need to feed once the tide turns!

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Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100

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JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. People and organizations in Nepal, Zambia, and South Africa have sought to change cultural attitudes, having the most success with school children. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 211