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Birding Inirida, Colombia: practicalities, part 3

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Founded in 1963, the municipal population of mostly indigenous people has reached 31,000 by 2018, of which about 11,000 in the town itself. Field guides As far as I have noticed, the entire group (including me) was using the latest Lynx edition of Hilty’s Birds of Colombia. The food was tasty and hearty.

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The Fourth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit

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A wonderful highlight of the day, for me at least, came when a group of creative types showed up to film a “post-apocalyptic rap video” nearby. They came up to the platform a couple at a time to check out the view and we shared our optics and showed them dolphins offshore, an Osprey eating a fish, and variety of other cool sights.

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Gulls of the World: A Photographic Guide: A Gull Book Review

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So, we start with Dolphin Gull and end with Red-Legged Kittiwake, a totally different sequence from the 2017 eBird listings. He notes in the Acknowledgements that photographs were obtained by the publishers initially, and then by requests to gull-oriented Facebook groups. Princeton University Press, 2018. Topography. Ivory Gull.

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