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Collaborative list – December 2018

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December’s collaborative results also summarises the year’s efforts, so this is December 2018 and the rest of 2018 all rolled into one sentence. December’s collaborative results also summarises the year’s efforts, so this is December 2018 and the rest of 2018 all rolled into one sentence.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. 29 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 27 Sep 2018. 25 Sep 2018. 25 Sep 2018. 24 Sep 2018. 23 Sep 2018. 23 Sep 2018.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed. In 1964, two researchers described a new species, the White-chested Tinkerbird, and brought a specimen back to the UK. But the text was last updated in 2015 while the DNA research was done in 2018. I think the people running the place even fed them.

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What the rings reveal

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Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. I somehow knew right away that the bird I saw was a Wryneck. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. .”

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. * Donna). ==. Tristan). ==.

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