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What the rings reveal

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I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. banding station, 2020. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. He wanted to do research that would have a conservation impact. And he hated being in larch bogs, the habitat of the Hooded Crane. by Jonathan C.

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Grey Goose Vodka

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So, an obvious choice for Birds and Booze, no doubt, but with its hefty price-tag – as well as the unexciting prospect of appraising such a neutral, reputedly flavorless liquid – it’s a review we’ve been putting off for a while, admittedly. In the late 1990s, Grey Goose was one of the very first of these. Grey Goose Vodka.

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