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Enjoy Innovative Electronic Music = Help Endangered Birds

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Produced by the Shika Shika label, A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean aims to promote birds and musicians from this region while raising funds for bird conservation. The brainchild of music producer, bird lover, and environmentalist Robin Perkins, this digital album is his second guide to birdsong.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side. (I

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The world is getting smaller

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Our range of destinations is reduced as required and this week I said a fond farewell to Buenos Aires , Argentina. It is a fenced area of woodland surrounding a small lake similar to Ribera Norte, but is slightly raised and thus defended against the high tide. Adios Argentina. But what goes around, comes around.

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Cafayete to Cachi – Fantastic scenery but few birds

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Continued from: Birding Calchaqui valleys in northern Argentina. Unfortunately we got a flat and this raised the stress since there was no traffic and we still had a few hours to reach our final destination for the night. Trips Birding Argentina Cachi Cafeyete Quebrada de Las Flechas' Sunset Colors in Calchaqui Valleys.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. Perhaps the most important threat to the Red Knot is climate change.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

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This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. We had been birding the north-west side of Argentina for 7 days and drove more than 3,000 km. Brown Cachalote.

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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

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The Red-ruffed Fruitcrow ( Pyroderus scutatus ) is a big, beautiful omnivore distributed across five distinct subspecies found in specific locales ranging from the humid western cordilleras of Colombia and Ecuador to the forests of northeastern Argentina.

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