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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. As is every one after it.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Kiva 78(1):37–60.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia. The friendly children of Bonkro village will soon have a school which is currently being constructed from conservation funds raised as a result of the nearby picathartes colony.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. In contrast to their grey-faced relatives, Eastern Buzzards are not uncommon in Shanghai in winter. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ). Not this one though.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats.

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The long and winding road

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We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. The population that nests in the western reaches of North America’s Arctic will cover about twice that distance, through Asia and down in to Africa.

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