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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

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White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. and after the road construction (June 2018). It was announced that the works should be finished in four months.

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Quintas das Arcas: Bicudo Vinho Verde (2017)

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In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. Better still, these wines lack the heftier price tags commanded by long aging – or the name recognition – of many other European wines.

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Zone of Happiness Birding

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The contributing or playing birders together produced photographic records for some 326 species [compared with 315 in 2019 and 318 in 2018]. Spangled Drongo – a common and conspicuous member of a family that has many species in Asia. Over fifteen birders created Photographic Year lists of over 200 species within the Zone in 2020.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata. Viking, April 2018. by Kirk Wallace Johnson.