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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face. Population estimates from “Birds of Serbia: Breeding Population Estimates and Trends”, BirdLife Serbia, 2015.

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Mendocino Brewing Company: Red Tail Amber Ale

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Articles covering the impending closure have placed some of the blame on industry-wide trends of overzealous expansion and an increasingly fragmented and localized craft beer market crowded with over 6,000 breweries in the United States at last count.

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The Everglade Snail Kite Is Making a Comeback

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The threat of extinction of such iconic Florida bird prompted State and Federal agencies to find solutions to stop and reverse the declining trend. It would take years to restore such large scale landscape changes, perhaps not soon enough to reverse the kite’s population downward trend. Kites now nest there and are fairly common.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

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Through intensive conservation management however, this downwards trend was halted and the population stabilized at more or less 100 bustards until 2011. Walk to a small abandoned farm and keep on along the track, crossing a small canal via a small bridge (don’t worry about the gate) just after the farm.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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There are more than 27,000 abandoned oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an investigation by Associated Press, describing the area as ‘an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades’ Some of the abandoned wells date back to the early 1900′s.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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Many animal abusers have a history of domestic violence or other criminal activity, and there is a disturbing trend of animal abuse among our country’s most notorious serial killers.”. “Animal abuse is not only a danger to our cats, dogs, horses, and other animals, but also to people, said ALDF Executive Directory Stephen Wells.