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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. The solution?

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. The photos of Sultan Tit that I got at Hongbenghe in 2017 were much better than the ones I got on Hainan in 2022. I am only joking! Birds should be free. A worrying trend.

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Greece: Oliver the Husky

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I saw the man looking around and then he left the area with a car" Also rumours says that back in 2017 in Arachova the employees of the Municipality were hitting all the stray animals and they were killing all of them by putting them alive in a garbage truck to tear them to pieces, police is doing nothing because they have money and power!

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or When Harry Met Mercedes

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I am taking a sip of coffee, my eyes following an impossibly colourful Kill-Bill ( Keel-billed) Toucan , flying against the background of the Irazu Volcano slopes and, farther to the right, water-vapour ‘smoking’ Turrialba Volcano on the horizon. Some years later, he returned to Rancho for a few months as a volunteer. Why go that far?

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A Most Remarkable Book

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million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. As to the caracara’s plans for the future: they have been seen, in the last twenty years, in Maine, Montana, and Washington State. (The With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Farewell to 2020 – Marin Brewing Company: Albion Amber Ale

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In October of 2017, I took what was my first trip to California as a birder. We’d arrived in San Francisco just in time for the very beginning of the record-breaking 2017 Northern California wildfires. As we’d just eaten our breakfast with the blackbirds, Katherine and I had some time to kill before our next meal.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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In “Summer of the Sparrow,” actress and ABA board member Lili Taylor relates a dramatic tale of murderous passion directed towards a House Sparrow who has killed the Bluebird babies in her nest boxes. Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. Braunfield. Braunfield.

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