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They’ve Got Personality

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Extra points to these American Avocets for adopting a different pose for each numbered group. Still, this Carrion Crow in Munich, Germany, had that Blackbird beat: It came so close to me that it did not fit in the camera’s frame. After contributing almost 100 posts to 10,000 Birds, I’ve kind of lost track.

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Birding Heligoland in Late September

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Virtually overnight, the Whinchats had disappeared and were replaced by European Stonechats adopting the same positions on vantage points across the island. These birds were omnipresent on the bushes and fence posts on the upper land of the island during the first weeks of my stay.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). .” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms.

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Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers: Kiwi Rising Double IPL

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Though hops are used by brewers all over the world, traditional production is mostly restricted to a “hop belt” around the 48 th parallel north, a circle of latitude that runs through the famed hop regions of Germany and the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

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But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city. A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm. Nearly 70 species of parrots have been recorded flying free at some stage or another in Miami, including Hyacinth Macaws.

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“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

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Gose, a pale, sour wheat beer from eastern Germany, top-fermented and most unusual for being seasoned with salt and coriander, is one such peculiarity. Leipzig in the eighteenth century: the adopted home of the sour, salty wheat beer known as Gose.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid.

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