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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out. Those mammals consist of the previously mentioned fossorial members of Insectivora, Rodents, and bats. There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Bat Falcon is a “Handsome small falcon of humid forest and edge, adjacent clearings, semi-open areas with scattered trees and forest patches; locally in towns, often at Maya ruin sites” (Belize, p. Long-billed Hermit is, “A spectacular if dull-plumaged hummer of humid forest understory…” (CR, p.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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Gray-headed Albatross – Thalassarche chrysostoma. Buller’s Albatross – Thalassarche bulleri. Black-browed Albatross – Thalassarche melanophris. White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Salvin’s Albatross – Thalassarche salvini. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Royal Albatross – Diomedea epomophora. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. 04 Jan 2018. 04 Jan 2018.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara.

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Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

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Hopefully you haven’t drunk too much the night before as there will be plenty of bird watching from the ferry, picking up albatrosses and shearwaters like Scarlett’s Shearwater. Nor is the sight of the Greater Short-tailed Bat , which can still fly but instead chooses to scurry across the forest floor in the manner of a shrew.