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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

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We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. For many birders, the Pel’s Fishing Owl roosts in a lofty position on just such a list. Sure they are uncommon and tough to find.

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. But there was never anything as fascinating as the Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. My sons and I have had little luck with Siamese fighting fish. Well, as close a bond as a man can form with a Siamese fighting fish. by Garth Stein. And then disaster struck.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. Salvin’s Prion.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and freeing the seventeen refuge employees to go back to work. ” Buyers, in a world packed and competitive beyond the imaginations of those who set aside these unclaimed and abandoned lands as forest reserves and public grazing lands in the early 1900s, are now everywhere, planet-wide.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. More alarm calling. I’m not sure what really happened.

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Birding in a Hellmouth

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The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. I have, for the most part, been able to avoid caves since that experience. It matters not a jot that I couldn’t say which was which or that fear is petty much my only real memory of the experience.

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