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

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Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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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. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. They would know the local streams, lakes, and marshes.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

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And I did manage to see a large number of new birds — 45 new species, to be specific. A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. New places, new birds!

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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. With 154 eBirded species, the Beljarica shares the 4th place on the list. eBird bar chart. #4

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Rough and Ruddy

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In fact, it’s one of the few species of birds that’s found on the six major, not ice-covered, continents. The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.

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