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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia

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And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. There were two cars used by project participants, and I, the only birder in the group, drove the first car. One of the problems was poor communication. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.)

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term.

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From Today's New York Times

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It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. Common Kingfisher , Common Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. What has changed in the meantime? eBird bar chart. #3

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Isn’t that neat? I have provided plenty of facts.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. … Extinction is forever.

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