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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. It was later re-published on the All About Birds website.) In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” with binoculars, field notebooks, smartphones, and field guides” looking for birds. Think about it for a minute.

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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri

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There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. When I was cutting my birding teeth in southern Missouri lo those many years ago, Greater Roadrunner was limited to a couple distant glades, cedar glens on the south side of Ozark mountains, in the far south of the state.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

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In fact, I was already embarrassed two months ago, when the pandemic and at-home duties had forced me to write about the same michoacano birds for a couple of years running. (It’s It’s a good thing that I can access some 300+ michoacano birds! New places, new birds! ” Of course, I birded every moment I could.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. This area offers probably the best wetland birding near Belgrade. What has changed in the meantime?

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Rough and Ruddy

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Take, for instance, the word “ruddy” Outside of birding, when was the last time you used it? In fact, it’s one of the few species of birds that’s found on the six major, not ice-covered, continents. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.

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

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Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. We need to be wary of politicians like Republican Utah State Representative Ken Ivory who is also co-founder of an organization called the American Lands Council , created to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states.

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