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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is the last post covering my time birding the Kruger Park in November 2018. Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. It seems this African Harrier-Hawk just caught something here. No clue what it is though. ” Instead, it mostly feeds on insects captured on the ground.

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JUNE 4, 2019

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The Pankhursts and their organization were not interested in saving birds; they saw the SPB mission as a distraction. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In ten years of hardcore birding, I have seen Aztec Thrushes only four times, never twice in the same year (2017, 2018, 2019, and now, 2024). Only the 2017 and 2019 sighting were in the same general area; although the first sighting there was of a family unit, and the second was of a single bird.

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2017 2019 Nashville 2018 200

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APRIL 7, 2020

He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

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JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Viking, April 2018. by Kirk Wallace Johnson.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102