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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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For me, it’s one of the most exciting days of the year, and so I’m going to put aside the book review I’ve been crafting and talk about my favorite, best, top ten birds of 2018 (with a personal addition at the end). But, 2018 was a very special year for me, as you’ll see if you read to the end. [If,

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. 28 Jul 2018. 27 Jul 2018. 27 Jul 2018. 27 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018. 26 Jul 2018.

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Collaborative List – April 2018

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Redgannet added another splash of colour to the collective profile by falling asleep on a boat and waking up in Uruguay , the 44th country to feature in the list. 01 Jan 2018. 01 Jan 2018. 20 Jan 2018. 13 Apr 2018. 13 Apr 2018. 04 Apr 2018. 19 Jan 2018. 13 Mar 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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The return of the Old Man

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Conservation efforts have been sufficiently successful for the bird’s status to be downlisted, in 2018, from Critically Endangered to Endangered. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections. Here they were easy to overlook.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Cutler Wetlands. 01 Jan 2016.

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