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Birding Singapore

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Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Lucky ducks. Please keep that in mind if you ever think that Germany’s only contributions to the world are highways and world wars. Plus hopefully, you will be arrested for mistreating animals.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in November 2021

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Japanese T**s have their own claim to fame – they are the first wild animal species with experimental evidence for compositional syntax. In an old man, such hairs coming out of the ears or nose would be considered extremely ugly. Somehow, for this bird it is ok. They also look fairly cute. The Northern Lapwing is Near Threatened.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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So, they cleverly would hijack unpopular animals or people as placeholders for the devil and then swear to their heart’s delight. The origin of this expression clearly lies in the slow, dopey waddling gait of a duck on land. Hunting in Germany is a very traditional pursuit and thus has a very specific and complex code of conduct.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Several Ferruginous Duck and one surprising male Goosander , four Glossy Ibises , Common Kingfishers , Eurasian Hopooes , a high note of a Penduline Tit somewhere from the willows along the canal, Eurasian Spoonbills , European Turtle Doves gently purrring …. Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake.

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Perth Hills National Parks

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The scheme was devised by C Y O’Connor who was an Irish engineer and steel was brought to Western Australia from both Germany and the United States of America and when the pipeline was completed it was the longest fresh water pipe in the world. Grey Kangaroos at the Mundaring Weir picnic area. Glen Brook Dam.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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Some examples of animal names working the other way around – with the Latin name sounding naughty – can be found here. This research was actually done only about 10 km away from a place I once lived for a couple of years, in Radolfszell, Germany. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit. Like this bird family b.

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