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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June. Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, Fortunately, B.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Weavers

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The IOC world birdlist recognizes 90 species that bear the name “weaver” or “malimbe” Not all of these are true weavers as we will discuss below. It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation.

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