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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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of Army Medical Department 1815-1851. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. The poor bird’s Latin species name is macgrigoriae , apparently (HBW) named after Jane Grant McGrigor, the daughter of Maj.-Gen.

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

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The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L. Merriam-Webster, [link].

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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2019), and now this book. They live in air-conditioned quarters and cared for in the most modern of avian medical facilities, with its own ophthalmology wing and intensive care unit. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. Hammer paints a fine journalistic picture of how falcons are bred, trained, and interbred for speed.

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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. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus.

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