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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of 2019?

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All those dreams you had for your 2019 year list will be, come New Year’s Day, accomplishments you’ll savor for decades or failures that will dog you all of your days. The post Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of 2019? This is it. Not keeping a year list? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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I need advice. Bad. (TW: Animal abuse talk)

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I (F14) have been dealing with my brother (M15) hurting and cussing out my dog My brother started to hate my dog back in I believe 2018, he was all nice with him before then, but them I guess puberty hit and he started to hate him. It got worse and worse as time went on, especially bad after in 2019 we got my second dog lily.

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Birdwatching the Okavango Delta

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In 2019 I joint-led my seventeenth safari in twelve years with Capture Africa, we are a good team. The birdlife here is wonderful, a ten-night safari should give you over 200 species, (2018 & 2019 both gave us 242!). The Okavango Delta is also one of the best places to see the endangered African Wild Dog.

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The return of the Old Man

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The individual I am pictured holding ( above ) was a friendly bird that (rather like a dog) seemed happy to be handled. Despite the fact that efforts are made to ensure they are not imprinted on humans, they are naturally confiding, even friendly. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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Or, that the grassland Burrowing Owls of Essay #90 (“Breeding Systems: Coloniality”), who require prairie dogs for successful nesting, are different from the Burrowing Owls of Florida, who are able to create burrow nests and breed without the ‘dogs.’ National Geographic, March 2019, 304 pages, 6.3

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Best wishes to you all for 2019, keep safe and keep birding. Marathon Prairie Dog Town. Without your contributions, many and varied, or few and consistent, the collabaorative list would be a very paltry affair. So please keep at it and keep sending me your shared checklists. Alphabetic Taxonomic. 23 May 2018. 08 Jul 2018. 03 Dec 2018.

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