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Retirement Age?

10,000 Birds

Partly due to the paucity of birding missions within the past fortnight, but more so because T&T is one of the few countries within which there are several birds bearing the national colours. Here are some of them: For those of you unfamiliar with the national colours of T&T, here is a Red-billed Tropicbird with all three.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2022

10,000 Birds

According to an article in the Guardian , “nearly a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples, the males sometimes mating with a female simply to have a chick. Probably these are escapees from the nearby nature reserve or somewhere else. It seems they kept a pheasant as a pet for the chick.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. how guides and drivers are found and where they live and what their families and homes look like, birder friends who accompany him on some legs of his quest, and the quirky people he ends up sharing beers with, in bars in huts on stilts. And sun bears.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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Location, location, location – some practical advice for River Lapwings aiming to have a family: “ River Lapwing nests on open, unvegetated river banks achieved significantly greater nesting success than those in crop fields” ( source ). Please bear with us while this update takes place.”

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Are you ready to get a dog?

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs aren’t teddy bears that can be left to one side, and the saying ‘a dog is for life, not just for Christmas’ lives on for a reason – it’s true. A dog should be a family decision, with the whole family promising to play their part in the care and love of the family pet. Ask questions.

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