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Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

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I would be away from my family for a time and my visiting in-laws from Tasmania….Perhaps In south east Asia, the birds are tied to the estuarine habitat and are recognised as crab specialists. This would really be an I.D.I.O.T. Cairns was some 1600 kilometres, nearly 1000 miles, away. I would have to fly and rent a vehicle.

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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

There is a Chinese proverb stating “Laws control a lesser person, right conduct controls a greater one.” At woodpecker family meetings, it usually stands a bit separate from most other species as it cannot meaningfully participate in discussions about wood (it mostly lives in rocky terrain without trees).

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Co-author Frank E. The maps on the inside front and back covers help a lot.

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We Got the Wrong Starling

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But we forget that the family Sturnidae consists of more than our familiar European Starling. And would have still direct the same ire towards starlings if the specie sin question were a different one, like, perhaps, Central Asia’s gorgeous Rosy Starling ?

India 158