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Owling in Trinidad & Tobago

10,000 Birds

Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Years later, a small group of us ventured into some forest adjoining abandoned cocoa estates in central Trinidad searching for a view of this bird. Striped Owl.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

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Mosco understands that there’s a wall of reasons why people hate Rock Pigeons and proceeds to dismantle them one by one using a powerful tool–information. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p.

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Birding Jianfengling, Hainan (A-H)

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Hopefully, this is a sign of purposely abandoned development rather than of business failures. Instead, some random information about the color blue. I do not know what the long-term plans are for this site, but there are actually several ruins of former tourist sites at Jianfengling. The main spa users these days are Grey Wagtails.

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The Juniper Titmouse Nesting Project

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But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

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To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. As his boss, the leader of the station, Colleen Shepherd, says, “He does so like his obtuse angles.”.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent.

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

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Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. …and after the road construction (June 2018). Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirt of a busy city. The only thing that is paved is overgrown in weeds: a sidewalk that leads nowhere and no one uses. And it gave me a sense of accomplishment.

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